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Temperature Data Wants To Be Free

An anonymous reader writes "The UK's Met Office Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia have been refusing access to the data used for their global climate averages and scientific studies. A copy of the data has leaked, and attempts continue to accomplish the release of the data by whoever maintains it. Excuses have included confidentiality agreements which cannot be verified because no records were kept, mention of the source has been removed from the Met Office web site, and IPCC records were destroyed."

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  1. Science? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    We don't believe in it here at the Met Office.

  2. Obviously a conspiracy!!! by rohan972 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Radical deniers have destroyed the evidence of global climate change!!! Will the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy stop at nothing?

  3. Gore by JohnHegarty · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, I tried to warn everyone about Gore's new world order , but no one would listen.

    It was all oil , bush , climate change and look how you all ended up.

  4. Re:What are they trying to hide? by master5o1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That, or someone mixed up various censorship blacklists with the data,

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  5. Re:Tinfoil hat time? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny
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  6. Re:100% worthless by Troed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hi and welcome to the scientific process. Without it, there's no science.

  7. Re:100% worthless by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    He claims the quote over and over again on the site. But where's the primary source?

    That's an interesting point. It sounds a lot like something McIntyre would love his adversary to have said, if he could only get him to say it.

    I've seen a fair amount of McIntyre's work and I get a hinky feeling from some of it. Personally, I'd like to believe what he says because I enjoy using fossil fuels and would love to think that they are completely harmless and will last forever and always be sixty cents a gallon if we could only get Al Gore to STFU. It seems to be more complicated than that, though.

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  8. Re:In fact you should scrutinize it yourself by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jenny McCarthy has more credibility than a Nobel laureate

    She's got advanced degrees in tits, which goes a long way where I come from.

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  9. Re:Tinfoil hat time? by intheshelter · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've violated the Climate Research Defamation Act and are now subject to arrest and the label Denialist for the rest of your life. Please wait peacefully until the Climate Alarm Citizen Army (CACA) arrives to apprehend you and guide your reeducation by surgically removing your independent thought heretical tendencies.

  10. Re:100% worthless by Angostura · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting hypothesis. Is it falsifiable?