text: But this comment, although it appeared, is now lost in the barrage. And Michael Getner, the PBS ombudsman, is backpedalling the role PBS played in allowing Watts to speak to their viewers. But as they say, when you are taking flak, it means youre over the target. Anthony Watts, through ordinary careful data collation and analysis, threatens the standing of NOAAs assertions about the integrity and accuracy of U.S. temperature records, and that has the alarmosphere in apoplexy.