The integrity of climate change research is in doubt after the disclosure of e-mails that attempt to suppress data, a leading scientific institute has said.
The Institute of Physics said that e-mails sent by Professor Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, had broken “honourable scientific traditions” about disclosing raw data and methods and allowing them to be checked by critics.
Professor Jones admitted to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee yesterday that he had “written some very awful e-mails”, including one in which he rejected a request for information on the ground that the person receiving it might criticise his work.
In a written submission to the committee, the institute said that, assuming the e-mails were genuine, “worrying implications arise for the integrity of scientific research in this field and for the credibility of the scientific method as practised in this context”.
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It would seem that the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia is in need of some new Professors, Canada should sacrifice 2 of ours to the cause: Iggy and Dion. They could also have Dion’s dog Kyoto as a mascot.
Also is Phil Jones related to Earl Jones? They should both get a lot of jail time for defrauding the public. This great climate swindle is much worse than anything Earl Jones or Bernie Madoff did.
It is comforting to realize that this committee is determined to leave no stone unturned in getting to the bottom of this horrific scandal. (sarc off)
BTDT … is it warmer under the stone or on top? And it we turn the stone over, does that action create AGW? Does sarc on-off-on-off create any friction?
No matter which way the crow flies, you can always break a window with an axe.
“Here’s the bit from Jones statement that was bothering me:”
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2010/3/1/what-jones-said-about-station-data.html#entry6878085