Posted by Eugene Volokh: Whoops! The claim: A paper on climate change reaches bad results because the authors entered one piece of data in degrees rather than radians. (See [1]Crooked Timber (John Quiggin) and [2]Deltoid (Tim Lambert).) Whoops! Not quite as bad as [3]filling up an airplane in pounds rather than kilograms or [4]using the wrong units in the Mars Climate Orbiter, but -- if this indeed happened -- still pretty bad.
Of course, that's the claim; if there's a rebuttal somewhere, please point me to it, and I'll happily link to it. References 1. http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002392.html 2. http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/08#mckitrick6 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider 4. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990930.html _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
