Now that Climategate is heating up...

Now that Climategate is heating up, the scientists
at the Climatic Research Unit at the University
of Anglia have agreed to release all their data
to the public.

from The UK Telegraph:

David Holland is seeking prosecutions against
some of Britain's most eminent academics for
allegedly holding back information in breach
of disclosure laws. Photo: DAVID ROSE

First, one has to wonder why this information
was never made public from the get go.
One would think with so many world governments
willing to wreck their economies over climate
change, that the very data supporting climate change
would have been exposed to the light of day already.

While exposing this data to millions will seem to
be the answer to clearing up the whole climate change
debate once and for all, there seems to be a major
fly in the ointment.

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.

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 admission follows the leaking of a
thousand private emails sent and received
by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director.
In them he discusses thwarting climate
sceptics seeking access to such data.

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.”

In other words all we are going to see is data that
has already been manipulated with no way of proving
just how the data was manipulated. The more you
peel back the onion here, the more man made climate
change is looking like a big fat hoax carried out by a
bunch of bullies masquerading as scientists.

It will be interesting to see if the Democrats are still
going to be willing to push Cap and Trade with
climate change looking so shady. It will also be one
hell of a YouTube moment when some enterprising
journalist corners Al Gore on Climategate.

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The pleasant use power to love. --