>"I get that he doesn't like that the bouys readings were raised rather than ships, but relatively, why would it matter?" I highly doubt they just raised all t

>"I get that he doesn't like that the bouys readings were raised rather than ships, but relatively, why would it matter?" I highly doubt they just raised all the buoy data by a single constant. The value probably varied over time and the "reverse" operation would not have exactly the same effects on any trends. We would have to look closer at the paper to see what was actually done though.