2008/11/25 Alastair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Scientists don't use models to find out where they go wrong. They use
> models because they can't use the real world.  Of course they should
> be looking at why the models fail, but in the case of the MSU and
> radiosonde lapse rate results, they have spent twenty years trying to
> prove the data wrong in order to show that their models are correct!

You're missing a teensy little point here: the S+C MSU *was* wrong, in
multiple ways. As were the lapse rates.

The models were right.

-W.

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