[Phys-L] Snopes and GCC (arctic ice) denying

[bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

I used the Phys-l archive search for Snopes and warming with no applicable result, so below is a link to Snopes' discussion in response to an “outlier”.  


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-arctic-ice-doubt-reality-climate-change/  

The author:  https://www.snopes.com/author/alex/  

note:  A former NASA employee, inter alia.

bc …  thinks a v. good summary, but is no expert.  


Apropos:   when to "throw out" a datum:  


Scroll to the Appendix:  


https://scott.physics.ucsc.edu/pdf/133_draftman.pdf   


OTOH:   The current 133 manual has a different reason for "throwing out" data.  however, I’m not free to reference.  

The only reason is bad equipment, in which case all data taken must be "thrown out”.   

I think a rather good discussion of outliers:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier