A whistleblower's account, published by the Mail on Sunday, reported that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rushed to publish exaggerated global warming data in order to influence the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. But in an opinion column, a scientist in the self-described climate consensus calls the report an "attack piece" that distorts results and neglects data.
From The Guardian:
The author of the recent attack piece, David Rose in the UK, has a history of denying the well-established science of climate change. He has a long history of making incorrect climate change statements. In the attack, Mr. Rose claims that scientists used misleading data in a recent (2015) paper that studied the rate of temperature change across the globe. He reportedly obtained information from someone who works at NOAA to imply that internal review procedures were not followed as the paper was prepared for publication. What Mr. Rose omitted however, is incredibly telling and he does a disservice to his readers.
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