Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/02/2010 7:42:51 PM PST by neverdem
The scientist at the heart of the climate change email scandal tried to hide flaws in key data, it is claimed.
Professor Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's prestigious climatic research unit, is said to have refused to release information that could have cast doubt on a widely-quoted study into how the growth of cities affects temperature.
The study, by the professor and a Chinese expert in 1990, concluded the effect of urbanisation was small - so city sprawl alone could not explain recent rapid rises in temperatures.
The research was published in the journal Nature and used by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to bolster its case for man-made global warming.
But many sceptics were convinced that cities played a much bigger role and claim Professor Jones refused their Freedom of Information requests for more details.
When he did release the information in 2007 his Chinese colleague, Wei-Chyung Wang of the University of Albany in the U.S., was accused of scientific fraud as he was unable to provide the history of the locations of all the weather stations included in the study.
Dr Wei-Chyung Wang told the Guardian that although he knew all the locations when he started the study, he no longer has the information. He added that his university had cleared him of any scientific fraud.
Professor Jones denied withholding the information, said the study 'stood up to scrutiny' and its results had been corroborated by more recent work.
He has already had to defend allegations that his unit manipulated data on global warming and explain an email in which he suggests using a 'trick' to massage years of temperature data to 'hide the decline'.
The latest claims will pile more pressure on Prof Jones, who has stood aside while an investigation...
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These guys deserve ASS KICKINGS.
Instead they’re going to get away with it.
Being a liberal has it’s perks. :)
First, read English language foreign media (U.K., Australia, etc. online)—they’re all over this story.
Second, why does it not surprise me that objectivity and scientific method are out the window with some “scientists” nowadays? Maybe because it’s cause they bite as scientists, and they’re wannabe politicians anyways.
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