    Computer geek uncovers British climate-data errors   Paola
Totaro  LONDON: The British Meteorological Office has been
forced to correct its global temperature records after a science
blogger discovered that Australian weather data had been misused
or discarded.  The mistakes were discovered by Dr John Graham-
Cumming when the temperature records were made public by the
office in December in the wake of the East Anglia University
email scandal.  Dr Graham-Cumming, a London mathematician and
computer programmer who describes himself as a ''computer
geek'', found that data from seven weather stations in Australia
had been accidentally discarded while another 112 Australian
stations - or 28 per cent of the Oceania total - had not been
fully included in the calculations.  ''What appears to have
happened is that the Met Office calculated the averages and then
got more data from Oceania and then failed to update the
averages,'' Dr Graham-Cumming said.  ''The site with the
greatest error was Napier Nelson Park, in