The Wall Street Journal editorializes on the reluctance of climate researchers to share their data. This would include not only East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, but other notable organizations such as the National Science Foundation, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and it’s National Climate Data Center (NCDC).
I couldn’t agree more with the conclusion…
Most of the participants in Copenhagen seem intent on rushing headlong into a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. But it would seem more fruitful at this point to redouble our efforts to figure out what we do and don’t know about the climate’s past, present and future. That includes casting some much-needed sunshine on the data on which so much importance is being placed, but which so far has remained shielded from public view.
