UK University Researchers Must Make Data Available

Sara Chan writes "In a landmark ruling, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office has decided that researchers at a university must make all their data available to the public. The decision follows from a three-year battle by mathematician Douglas J. Keenan, who wants the data to do his own analysis on it. The university researchers have had the data for many years, and have published several papers using the data, but had refused to make the data available. The data in this case pertains to global warming, but the decision is believed to apply to any field: scientists at universities, which are all public in the UK, can now not claim data from publicly-funded research as their private property." There's more at the BBC, at Nature Climate Feedback, and at Keenan's site.

Comments

Re:Sudden Outbreak of Common Sense

[blackraven14250]

I imagine you propose the fraudsters taking your charitable church contributions and the fraudsters promoting the Republican party are exempt?

Re:Proved?

[Attila Dimedici]

Yes, Exxon is giving millions of dollars to those who are researching to disprove AGW, but Exxon is giving hundreds of millions of dollars to those who are proponents of AGW. Sorry to disrupt your nice little world view, but there is much more money in being an AGW proponent than in being an AGW skeptic.