Avoided releasing data
The university at the centre of the Climategate scandal has been force to hand over its raw temperature data by the Information Commissioner in the UK. The University of East Anglia has repeatedly refused access to the data using various methods to thwart FOI requests. Why would they do that?
Here we have a body which is responsible for one of the main temperature data sets on which the global warming scare is built (CRUTEM3), and yet they refuse to hand over the data so third parties can check it. There’s transparency for you.
As The Guardian reports:
Critics of the UEA’s scientists say an independent analysis of the temperature data may reveal that Phil Jones and his colleagues have misinterpreted the evidence of global warming. They may have failed to allow for local temperature influences, such as the growth of cities close to many of the thermometers.
Jonathan Jones, who is not a climate scientist, said he thought “the most significant features of this decision are the precedents that have been set”. The commissioner is likely to rule more generally in favour of public access to scientific data.
Under the 2000 Freedom of Information Act, public bodies such as universities have to share their data unless there are good reasons not to. But when Jonathan Jones and others asked for the data in the summer of 2009, the UEA said legal exemptions applied. It said variously that the temperature data were the property of foreign meteorological offices; were intellectual property that might be valuable if sold to other researchers; and were in any case often publicly available.
But in a damning verdict, [Information Commissioner Christopher] Graham said suggestions that international relations could be upset by disclosure were “highly speculative”, and “it is not clear how UEA might have planned to commercially exploit the information requested.”
Jonathan Jones said this week that he took up the cause of data freedom after Steve McIntyre, a Canadian mathematician, had requests for the data turned down. He thought this was an unreasonable response when Phil Jones had already shared the data with academic collaborators, including Prof Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US. He asked to be given the data already sent to Webster, and was also turned down. So he appealed to the information commissioner.
“I am extremely concerned about the apparent pattern of secrecy and evasion,” he said. “My sole aim [in pursuing the case] is to help restore climate science to something more closely resembling scientific norms.”
The UEA said: “We have nothing to fear from scrutiny; we are committed to openness and transparency in our research… and we fully intend to make all data publicly available as soon as possible.” (source)
Yeah, right. They wouldn’t have done anything of the sort if this kind of application hadn’t been made and prosecuted vigorously. Well done Jonathan.
The Commissioner’s ruling is here (PDF).
Australian Climate Madness 
Ha ha ha ha, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks. These guys are comic genius’s…
Indeed. If that truly is their position, and if as they say the data “were in any case often publicly available”, why didn’t they hand it over in the first place?
Seriously, alarmists take people in general to be fools. Ironically, it’s the alarmists who end up looking more foolish. The saddest part is that they don’t seem to know it.
The University of East Anglia, so-called climate scientists, along with those involved in Climategate, James Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Michael Mann, famous for Mann’s “Hockey Stick”; Gavin Schmidt, NASA climate modeler, and; Stephen Schneider, Stanford professor and Al Gore confidant, have already been outed for massaging climate statistics to suit their own hypothesis. Their data is no longer trustworthy and neither is their credibility.
Of course all this is nothing new for those scientists involved in enhancing global warming. Selective and statistical fitted data are the norm for these fraudsters who’s only goal is to bolster their own government grants to perpetuate the myth and keep themselves employed.
Of course they are transparent. The same way as Gillard was, is and always be about anything. Let us hope that Al Gore’s global scam will finally go down in flames together with all the green fascists propagating that evil & enslaving neo-marxist dogma.
THERE IS A HOPE!
German Rapper Kilez More produced an anti warmist hit.
Such work hopefully will get the younger generation thinking about real intentions of likes of Al Gore, Garnaud, Flannery, GilIard, Brown and other of the evil brotherhood. Here are some of the lyrics translated by someone into English. Because of that they lodt the rhymes but not the message!
Kilez More – Climate Change Lyrics in English)
You thinking of climate change and you’re screaming for laws
You’re thinking about CO2 and saying “let’s stop it”
Global catastrophes happening all because of man
We did too much driving, now the planet is too warm
If we don’t do something soon then the ice will melt
A flood is gonna kill us and the future’s gonna fall
No it aint…I’m telling you you’re off the wall
Man aint causing climate change, yeah you
think I’m crazy and making no sense
But just look at the climate institutes and you’ll see
what they do, they’re fudging the data making it hot
We just found out…their studies are made up
A hacker got in the computer and the database
Now read the mails from the CRU – they’ll make you laugh
They’re cooking the numbers, the temperature is up
Listen to me! It’s all a fraud and enough is enough
Ref
Climate change was not made by man
No… It’s only to keep the world in fear
All those who are pimpin it are being called experts
And the brothers who diss it are getting labelled sick
Climate change was not caused by man
No…it’s only to keep the world in fear
But I don’t believe it, and so I’m getting labelled sick
But it’s the price you pay when you think for yourself
II
Climate change is normal, it’s always been around
We aint done a thing, history shows us so
History books show in 1100 the planet was warm
In North England people were pickin grapes and making wine
And that wasn’t because of factories run by knights and
The shield industry driving the climate up
Then in sixteen hundred the Baltic froze over and it
Wasn’t because they stopped CO2 with ‘reform’
That’s pure arrogance when man thinks he’s got the power
To control the whole climate on the entire globe
Truth is only 1 to 3 percent comes from man
Comes from processes that are natural – so they’re lying
Inside the brainless walls of these fear-mongering crackpots
They want more power, more money, more control, more global tax
And every skeptic is getting branded by them
Being defamed and compared to Holocaust deniers
Ref
Climate change was not made by man
No… It’s only to keep the world in fear
All those who are pimpin it are being called experts
And the brothers who diss it are labelled sick
Climate change was not caused by man
No…it’s only to keep the world in fear
But I don’t believe it, and so I’m getting labelled sick
But it’s the price you pay when you think for yourself
Brilliant news ! i only hope it will end up in the right hands & not to some funded body of somesort paid to fudge the figures
We can only hope the truth comes out, but on the other hand a lot of people have a lot to lose if the whole AGW scam is exposed. Im expecting that it will not change the warmists attitude. The cynic in me says that they will simply say, “well, it doesnt matter, all this green change is good, so why not continue it”.
The only thing that will change the outlook for Australia is a change of Govt.
Im usually an apathetic voter, but when Gillard and Co are gone, I will be celebrating big time.