'Climate change' data dumped...
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.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
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.
He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is “unequivocally” linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity.
Scientists do this all the time. That's why papers are peer reviewed. I had 2 papers rejected, and 2 accepted in grad school. If I "value-added" the numbers to make them more interesting, they all would be published but that's not how you should operate if you have any integrity.
ReplyDeleteThe crux of the scandal is that the scientists at CRU manipulated the peer-review process. They systematically prevented peer-review, the emails outline their scheme pretty clearly.
ReplyDeleteTo top it off, they lost the raw data so that there can be no further review.