“The world’s source for global temperature record admits it’s lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record.”
Andrew Orlowski (Register, UK)
The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia — permitting it to snub FoIA requests to see the data.
The CRU has refused to release the raw weather station data and its processing methods for inspection — except to hand-picked academics — for several years. Instead, it releases a processed version, in gridded form. NASA maintains its own (GISSTEMP), but the CRU Global Climate Dataset, is the most cited surface temperature record by the UN IPCC. So any errors in CRU cascade around the world, and become part of “the science”.
Professor Phil Jones, the activist-scientist who maintains the data set, has cited various reasons for refusing to release the raw data. Most famously, Jones told an Australian climate scientist in 2004:Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.
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Canadian statistician and blogger Steve McIntyre, who has been asking for the data set for years, says he isn’t impressed by the excuses. McIntyre obtained raw data when it was accidentally left on an FTP server last month. Since then, CRU has battened down the hatches, and purged its FTP directories lest any more raw data escapes and falls into the wrong hands.
More from Steve McIntyre, at Climate Audit.
Via Planet Gore
Jonesies popular placement of tempsensors is southCanada, U.S., Japan and westEurope NEAR urban centres,,nuff sed
well, the geologic record exists and it proves there is no such thing as agw. carry on.
fly on the wall – right on. Grubby gooned-out brain-dead filthy ugly stupid hippies DO make very convenient, numerous, and totally obedient puppets though, don’t they?