This is the THIRD review of the data and emails that climate scientists had hacked. This review, like the first two, found that the researchers did not suppress or manipulate their data.
This is the THIRD review of the data and emails that climate scientists had hacked. This review, like the first two, found that the researchers did not suppress or manipulate their data.
This is from a really thorough story at the BBC where the University of East Anglia set up an Independent Climate Change Email Review.
The article goes on to make quite a few good points regarding the skeptics claims of manipulation and suppression of data. The critics claim that the scientists withheld temperatures from weather stations, however:
"We find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it," it says.
another good one:
"We demonstrated that any independent researcher can download station data directly from primary sources and undertake their own temperature trend analysis".
So basically all of the climate data is available to anyone willing to take the time and do the research, but this is too much for the deniers to handle:
"It's also clear that anyone competent could perform their own analysis without let or hindrance."
This is the third and most comprehensive review of the data and emails and again there is no story. The BBC does point out that this will not change any skeptics minds, they have already made up their mind on the issue and no amount of truth can convince them of what they know to be true.
There were a couple of areas where there needed to be improvement, responses to Freedom of Information Requests, and where they combined instrument data and tree ring data for a graph. Other than that, this is really just another good review of the whole "climategate" issues. It should put to bed the debate, but it won't.