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Inquiry rules secrecy crippling – but, science remains legitimate
MPs…strongly criticised the University of East Anglia for not tackling a “culture of withholding information” among the climate change scientists whose private emails caused a furore after being leaked online in November.
The parliamentary science and technology select committee was scathing about the “standard practice” among the climate science community of not routinely releasing all its raw data and computer codes – something the committee’s chair, Phil Willis MP, described as “reprehensible”. He added: “That practice needs to change and it needs to change quickly.”
• There was no evidence to challenge the “scientific consensus” that global warming is induced by human activities…
• On peer review, “the evidence we have seen does not suggest that Jones was trying to subvert the peer review process” and academics should not be criticised for “informal comments” on papers, MPs said…
Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment said the report, “does not really shed any more light on the controversy surrounding the emails … and will not stop the conspiracy theories being spread by so-called ‘sceptics’.
Of course not. Skepticism not founded on reasonable peer-reviewed science is political balderdash, nothing more.
Prof. Jones resigned when this blew up – and the parliamentary committee has recommended he return to the University and resume his research and teaching.
