Submission + - NASA posts ancient FORTRAN code, buffs up data
chicomarxbro writes: "A Y2K error
discovered by blogger Steve McIntyre in August forced NASA's climate chief
James Hansen revise temperature data showing 1934 was actually the hottest year
on record, not 1998 as previously announced. This spurred renewed calls for
NASA's Goddard Institute for
Space Studies (GISS) to publicly release their historical FORTRAN code which
powered the global temperature analyses. Still used today, the code has a
lineage going back to the 70's.
NASA finally agreed
and published the code but not before making an
unannounced change
to the raw temperature data which bundled with the code. NASA's change to raw
data collating methods. which hadn't been modified in over a decade, resulted in
1998 being put back in first place next to 1934. Some bloggers have called this
stealthy revision
of the raw data an "Enron
like accounting game""
