Reply #125: Twist this all you want, but your still wrong. [View All]

[lapfog_1]

I don't have any idea where they put their copies of their tapes.

They say they threw them out when they moved buildings.

Good for them. It wouldn't have mattered anyway. Tapes more than 5 to 7 years old are likely unreadable by anyone. The oxide falls off.

But they don't USE the raw data anyway. They use the calibrated data.

Open your mind just a little (I know, it's hard for you)... what they are saying when they say they lost the raw data is like this:

An instrument records the height of mercury in a thermometer. A tape is made of THAT HEIGHT. The thermometer is calibrated and some numbers applied to the height of mercury (degrees Celsius) and another tape is made that only records the measured temperature as numbers. They lost the tapes with the measured height of the mercury, not the ones with the numbers.

That's what they lost.

BFD.

If they got their data from instruments around the world, then they aren't the only place where the raw data is stored (even uncalibrated). Way old data, from weather records and ships pre-satellite days, NEVER HAD A RAW COMPONENT as people just wrote down the calibrated numbers.