On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 07:14:29 GMT, "Steve Bloom"
wrote:

Charlie, there was never a problem with the data sets. The problem was in
properly correlating and interpreting them. Now that has been done.
Ground, radiosonde and satellite temperature data now show sufficient
agreement with each other and with the models that we can all move forward.

The source of the fault is a bit of a technical red herring - expect
some arguments along the lines of "well if that was wrong then this
could be wrong too.."

The point about the new agreement with climate models is ...
premature, imho. There's been a considerable investment in resolving
the data anomaly, and the models have probably absorbed some some of
that.

As the sun sets, tho, there's a certain irony that when a systemic
'measurement' problem did actually show up, the correction
strengthened rather than weakened the GW case.