British Review of Climategate

The British House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has just completed its review of the culpabilty of University of East Anglia’s Professor Phil Jones regarding ‘hiding the decline’ emails and related correspondence.

 

The response is well crafted, winding around the very obvious that, yes, these principals were hiding data.  One could say that they were hoarding, but the real effect for the science community was the hiding of the data from responsible review and thwarting reproducibility of results.  Those results and data finally available for review, after a multi-year fight, have been found to not tell the whole story as advertised by the hoarders/hiders.  With the IPCC now asking for and encouraging true critical review by additional parties, science may regain some credibility.  This would not have happened without revealing the hiding and suspected intentional tossing of contrary data.

Right on to that!

 

Even the hype about arctic sea ice is currently in the toilet with the expanse within the 20 year anchor (1979-2000, space age) standard deviation for this early spring period (see chart) and increasing.  This is despite a generally mild north-temperate zone winter due to the current El Nino. 

 

So, what is it?  Weather or Climate Change?  Maybe with some longer term solid space age data such as from the new Japanese IBUKI GOSAT CO2 and decent modeling, we may become to realize that mother nature is the real cause, not us.