I blogged earlier about the Berkley study which was hyped as the final refutation of Global Warming skepticism. Well, Anthony Watts, who has had access to the study for some time now has blogged on the much hyped paper:
Berkley Surface Temperature Project Puts PR Before Peer Review.
I am gratified to see Watts express early on some of the same concerns I had with the paper. Watts tells the story behind the scenes so to speak about how this whole thing was turned into a planned major media event where they forged ahead in spite of warnings about the quality of the data. Just as I thought, the data used was seriously flawed, though not in the way I thought it might be. In this case the uncertainty of the data is so high, 70% of the stations with an uncertainty of almost five degrees, that it is useless for reaching the conclusions arrived at.
There is another article, a polemic, which puts the paper in terms easily understood by the layman. It also addresses the straw-man argument which was advanced by the media. Watt's touched on that.
The Death of Global Warming Skeptics, Or The Birth of Straw Men?
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