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I've been pondering the announcement over the weekend that the CRU at UEA "destroyed" the original temperature data, possibly decades ago. I understand that the raw observations may well have occupied an excessive amount of space and the "let's throw the junk out" attitude is somewhat understandable. However, I don't imagine that these "scientists" normalized the data using calculators. In all likelihood the raw data was digitized and then normalized. If indeed that was the case, are we to believe that they threw out a tape because it took up too much space? A little hard to believe from my...

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