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Where the Global Warming Data Is
Several readers noted the latest fallout from the Climate Research Unit's Climategate: the admission by the University of East Anglia that the raw data behind important climate research was discarded in the 1980s, "a time when climate change was seen as a less pressing issue" according to the Times (UK) article. The Telegraph quotes Phil Jones, beleagured head of the CRU: "Our global temperature series tallies with those of other, completely independent, groups of scientists working for NASA and the National Climate Data Centre in the United States, among others. Even if you were to ignore our findings, theirs show the same results. The facts speak for themselves; there is no need for anyone to manipulate them." Some of the data behind these other results can likely be found in a new resource that jamie located up at the Real Climate site: a compilation of links to a wide variety of raw data about climate. From the former link: "In the aftermath of the CRU email hack, many people have come to believe that scientists are unfairly restricting access to the raw data relating to the global rise in temperature. ... We have set up a page of data links to sources of temperature and other climate data, codes to process it, model outputs, model codes, reconstructions, paleo-records, the codes involved in reconstructions etc."
After seeing all this talk about these guys, they sure do seem like a motley CRU.
Why the hell weren't they using PGP?
Secure data you don't want on the web. How stupid can people be?
Anglia's Great Wank.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
It means Mann-made climate change.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
too bad no one gives a shit about you or what you think.
just sayin'
Has anyone here seen a rainforest? Have you seen the clearcutting?
Yes, the one in British Columbia. It's not a jungle, but it is a rain forest. And I saw where it stopped. And I saw the giant trees that the wind threw down because the forest isn't there to soften the wind anymore.
You can't take the sky from me...
Where are all of the glaciers from 10,000 years ago? You can't tell me that wasn't man-made warming as well.
Little known fact: Early man burned mammoths for heat and to power industry. Rapid mammoth extinction and major climate change. Coincidence? I think not!
The only thing that saved ice hockey was peak mammoth!
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
Absolutely right. We used to joke that they would eventually tax us for the air we breathe...
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."
Yes, the fundamentals of global warming are pretty simple, which is why the computer models were able to so accurately predict the warming we've experienced for the last decade.