by the Left Coast Rebel
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation. The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
First, a headline this morning from the Times of London --- Climate Change Data Dumped:
Now rememeber, for those not familiar with the standing of the CRU, just what it is and what it does:
The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and
temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how
its data were compiled. That is now impossible.
Another British source has a great piece from yesterday too, Christopher Booker in the Telegraph:
There are three threads in particular in the leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed observers across the world. Perhaps the most obvious, as lucidly put together by Willis Eschenbach (see McIntyre's blog Climate Audit and Anthony Watt's blog Watts Up With That), is the highly disturbing series of emails which show how Dr Jones and his colleagues have for years been discussing the devious tactics whereby they could avoid releasing their data to outsiders under freedom of information laws.
Read the rest here
Via Memeorandum
Also read The Other McCain
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