President-elect Trump

[Undertoad]

they intend to steer NASA away from "politicized science".

That's excellent, I hope they are effective at it.

To wit, NOAA should not entirely cook a data set to "erase" the "pause" in advance of the Paris climate talks, and then (ironically, for this thread) lose the most important data in it so that it can't be recreated.

But it appears this has happened.

[Mountain Mule]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

To wit, NOAA should not entirely cook a data set to "erase" the "pause" in advance of the Paris climate talks, and then (ironically, for this thread) lose the most important data in it so that it can't be recreated.

But it appears this has happened.

Maybe. Maybe not. According to The Real Truth Project:

Judith Curry is co-founder and co-head of a consulting company reported to make ($1-5 million yearly), Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) whose "innovative OmniCast(TM) suite of weather and climate forecast products for the energy sector incorporates the latest research in weather and climate dynamics...". OmniCast(TM) was "developed by CFAN in response to the needs of a major client in the petroleum industry for extended range, better-than-market weather forecasts to support energy trading, sales and marketing."

Omnipage(TM) is accessible from the "Solutions" tab on all or nearly all pages of the web site; it is the only thing there for which there is a PDF brochure (very nicely designed), and the only CFAN trademark that I saw; it also appears to have been introduced about the same time the company was founded, all of which suggests it is not a small part of their business. The quote above seems designed to catch the eye of potential clients in the petroleum industry.

Pay me 1.5 million/year, and I might be tempted to claim that the earth is flat if that's what my benefactors wanted to hear.