The claim: A paper on climate change reaches bad results because the authors entered one piece of data in degrees rather than radians. (See Crooked Timber (John Quiggin) and Deltoid (Tim Lambert).) Whoops! Not quite as bad as filling up an airplane in pounds rather than kilograms or 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.
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