{"id":3627,"date":"2009-11-28T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2009-11-28T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T03:22:40","slug":"climate-change-data-dumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/climate-change-data-dumped\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change data dumped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times UK<\/a> | by Jonathan Leake | Nov. 29, 2009<\/p>\n

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.<\/p>\n

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. <\/p>\n

The UEA\u2019s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.<\/p>\n

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals \u2014 stored on paper and magnetic tape \u2014 were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building. <\/p>\n

The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU\u2019s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data.<\/p>\n

In a statement on its website, the CRU said: \u201cWe do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CRU is the world\u2019s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.<\/p>\n

Roger Pielke, professor of environmental studies at Colorado University, discovered data had been lost when he asked for original records. \u201cThe CRU is basically saying, \u2018Trust us\u2019. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jones was not in charge of the CRU when the data were thrown away in the 1980s, a time when climate change was seen as a less pressing issue. The lost material was used to build the databases that have been his life\u2019s work, showing how the world has warmed by 0.8C over the past 157 years.<\/p>\n

He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is \u201cunequivocally\u201d linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity. <\/p>\n

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