This "settled science,"...I do not think it means what you think it means

Sheesh, first NASA has to quietly correct its temperature data because Climate Audit's Steve McIntyre, a British mathematician discovered serious flaws in methods and results and now

Douglas J. Keenan, a former Morgan Stanley arbitrageur and current independent mathematical researcher, identified "fabrications" in such studies that suggest a "marked lack of integrity in some important work on global warming that is relied upon by the IPCC" and that "the insignificance of urbanization effects on temperature measurements has not been established as reliably as the IPCC assessment report assumes."

(Emphasis belongs to Noel Shepherd of NewsBusters who has the entire story: UN Climate Panel Accused of Possible Research Fraud)

Seems that two reports that focused upon the temperature data of China, and that were used in the UN study, claim to have used temperature stations with clear histories of not having been moved or relocated. Unfortunately, 49 of the 84 stations used in the two studies have no such history. This alone makes the use of their data unreliable. Oops.

It’s really nice that all this science is “settled.” I wonder if the massive rush to push the Anthropomorphic Global Warming cart down everyone’s throat was so we couldn’t see there were no horses (data) pulling it along.

(To use another metaphor: It’s starting to look like the Emperor really doesn’t have any clothes at all.)

Via Classical Values where there is also a link to some problems with other data sets…in Russia, and elsewhere.