Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Global warming: An inquiry that doesn't look at the science cannot understand Climategate
As with other inquiries into the affair, the Russell review states that they did not examine the science and that the science is correct.
Lord Russell of Holyrood « Climate Audit
They adopted a unique inquiry process in which they interviewed only one side – CRU. As a result, the report is heavily weighted towards CRU apologia – a not unexpected result given that the writing team came from Geoffrey Boulton’s Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Climategate report: 'Campaign to win hearts and minds' needed • The Register
What Climategate is largely about, then, is whether the academics were justified in making that Medieval Warm Period disappear.

Unfortunately, none of the three 'independent' reviews have grappled with this.
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