Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Friday, April 16, 2010 7:28:48 PM
I have but one question: How do you have in inquiry into something when all the records are gone?
An inquiry panel of leading scientists, nominated by the Royal Society, said that the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit may not have used the best methods for analysing temperature records.
The unit had also failed to store all its data and keep full records of exactly what it had done, preventing other scientists from checking all its findings.
But after interviewing the unit’s scientists and studying 11 of their reports, the panel concluded: “We found them to be objective and dispassionate in their view of the data and their results, and there was no hint of tailoring results to a particular agenda.
“Their sole aim was to establish as robust a record of temperatures in recent centuries as possible.”
Not one lick of that makes any sense when all the temperature data used to create the record is missing and the methods they used are suspect. If their sole aim was to record temperatures, I guess whether or not any of that data is correct is an entirely different issue? There are so many things wrong with this that if it wasn't so ridiculous, it would be criminal.
One good thing did come from it though, and that was the fact that once again the U.N.'s IPCC cannot and should not ever be trusted.
“Recent public discussion of climate change and summaries and popularisations of the work of CRU and others often contain oversimplifications that omit serious discussion of uncertainties emphasized by the original authors.
“For example, CRU publications repeatedly emphasise the discrepancy between instrumental and tree-based proxy reconstructions of temperature during the late 20th century, but presentations of this work by the IPCC and others have sometimes neglected to highlight this issue.”
The panel also criticised the Government for “impeding the flow of processed and raw data to and between researchers” by adopting a policy of charging for access to environmental data collected by publicly funded researchers.
“This is unfortunate and seems inconsistent with policies of open access to data promoted elsewhere in government.”
That is not science. That is corruption; plain and simple. Climate science is not something that should be bought and sold. It should free to all for inspection regardless of your thoughts or theories. That is the whol point of science, or at least it used to be. Test it, check it, and prove it. This, on the other hand, has been turned into a political game run into the ground by the corrupt United Nations.