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.Mistakes happen, and this fact by itself doesn't really prove anything. But it is mighty suspicious looking when combined with all the other attempts at hiding and obfuscation employed by the CRU gang.
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.
The article goes on to say that the loss of this data means that other scientists can't check the CRU's work. That's not quite true – the lost data can be regenerated by re-doing the studies. This will be time-consuming and expensive, but it's practically free by comparison to the climate change mitigations being considered based on conclusions drawn from the data. Re-doing the studies seems like a no-brainer...
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