On 7 April, CSIRO wrote (apparently to all those who had accessed their wonky climate data) advising improvements to the terminology with the misleading subject line, “CSIRO projected weather files for building energy modelling – update”. Rather than warn the data users of the fatally flawed transcription errors in the current climate files and the projected future climate files (neither of them are weather files) the email ended with the massively disappointing and irresponsible line:
“Note that the data within the text files is unchanged.”
Exemplary will now be making formal complaints to the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER) and the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) asking them to require the CSIRO to label the files with an unfitness warning until the series of errors have been corrected, as a matter of urgency.