More trouble in climate change paradise…
Apparently the original data is no longer available…
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
You never throw away the original data. Never ever, and we’re letting these jokers heavily influence climate change policy?
Roger Pielke at the University of Colorado comments…
Roger Pielke, professor of environmental studies at Colorado University, discovered data had been lost when he asked for original records. “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,” he said.
Well, I’ll leave it to others to trust them.
Update 11/29 @ 23:35
Ed Morrissey asks a simple question Climategate question…
When would scientists expecting the world to take them seriously throw out the raw data on which their conclusions are based?
Update 11/30 @ 00:13
Paul Mirengoff at Powerline echoes Ed’s question. He concludes…
One need not be a hard-core global warming skeptic to question whether we should alter the way we live in response to predictions based on findings that cannot be checked because the raw data was intentionally destroyed by the outfit that made the findings.<
