To use your sporting analogy, Homewood is an interested spectator who is pointing out that Jordan had one foot out-of-bounds on the buzzer beating last shot.
No he isn't, and that is a stupid ******* analogy. He wouldnt have to point out something like that, because anybody with eyeballs can see it for themselves.
No, he is an uneducated slob who knows less than nothing about any of that, and he counts on goobers like you with similar knowledge to buy the snake oil he is selling. Period.
Why do you think it is a stupid analogy? Every parent who has had kids in sports has witnessed bad calls by the refs. Instant replay and reversal of mistakes doesn't happen.
The gatekeepers of temperature datasets are getting even more chary of divulging intermediate steps and calculations in their work, not less. There is no instant replay, no reversal of bad calls. No explanation is forthcoming for obvious mistakes. Often the childishly simply mistakes that are pointed out don't even get fixed. They are simply handwaved away as inconsequential.
You besmirch Homewood as a know nothing slob because you would rather insult and dismiss him than acknowledge that he has used his bookkeeping skills to point out an irregularity in the NOAA books. The data is there for everyone to look at, he has given links to the source material. We have been told that the adjustments should be about 1F yet they are 3F. Why don't you point out some of the districts that are adjusted by much less than 1F, to balance out the average?
I have actually looked up many of the papers that described the methodology for determining amount of adjustment used for the transition from one instrument to another, time of observation, etc. They are crude and seemingly unsuitable for a general number across all conditions.
For example, a German meteorologist kept both technologies running in parellel for over a decade, on his own initiative to satisfy his curiosity. When he retired, he released his data. The adjustment added for the switch to a different measurement instrument comprised almost ALL of the supposed warming trend. This was only one station in Germany but it mirrored the result for the whole country.
I could go on and on, and I have in the past. No one cares.