{"id":2589,"date":"2010-03-31T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2010-03-31T17:41:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T23:41:48","slug":"british-parliament-into-climategate-largely-clears-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/british-parliament-into-climategate-largely-clears-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"British Parliament investigation into Climategate largely clears scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m3d31-British-Parliament-Climategate-scientists-actions-in-line-with-common-practice\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A British Parliament committee has largely absolved scientists involved in the Climategate email scandal but also accused them of a 'culture of withholding information.' (Examiner.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/image3.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/EXID25061\/images\/parliamentglobe.jpg\" alt=\"A British Parliament committee has largely absolved scientists involved in the Climategate email scandal but also accused them of a 'culture of withholding information.' (Examiner.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British Parliament committee has largely absolved scientists involved in the Climategate email scandal but also accused them of a &#39;culture of withholding information.&#39; (Examiner.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A formal inquiry by the British Parliament\u2019s Science and Technology Committee into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~topic525937-Climategate?selstate=topcat#breadcrumb\">the Climategate email scandal<\/a> has largely absolved the British scientists involved of the most serious allegations against them. The panel did however also conclude that there were issues that needed to be addressed in order to allay public doubts about the scientists\u2019 work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m3d31-British-Parliament-Climategate-scientists-actions-in-line-with-common-practice\">View the complete Parliament here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The panel took a cursory look into the accusations that have been leveled against the University Of East Anglia (UAE), its Climate Research Unit (CRU) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m12d1-Central-Climategate-scientist-to-step-down-pending-investigation\">the head of CRU, Dr. Phil Jones<\/a>. Only one day of hearings were held in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m1d22-British-Parliament-launches-investigation-into-Climategate-email-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">the inquiry that was first announced in January<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the issues the committee discussed were the charges of manipulation \/ suppression of data, UAE\u2019s \/ CRU\u2019s practices for information dissemination and its compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.<\/p>\n<p>In a 63 page report (link above), the British MP\u2019s outline the case against those involved and the conclusions they reached. For most critical issues including the charges of data manipulation that were brought about by emails discussing a \u2018trick\u2019 to \u2018hide the decline\u2019, the panel concluded Jones and his colleagues had not done anything untoward.<\/p>\n<p>It further concluded that the climate data generated by CRU is in line with other datasets from NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). \u201cWe therefore conclude that there is independent verification, through the use of other methodologies and other sources of data, of the results and conclusions of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>A statement accompanying the report, the panel said that, \u201cThe focus on Professor Jones and CRU has been largely misplaced.\u201d It notes that Jones\u2019 limiting of access to the underlying data of his conclusions about manmade climate change were \u2018standard practice\u2019 in climate science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m3d31-British-Parliament-Climategate-scientists-actions-in-line-with-common-practice\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1735\" title=\"There's more to this story on Examiner.com!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/examiner-more.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/examiner-more.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/examiner-more-150x36.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>However, all was not perfect in the report at the panel slammed the scientists and university for their lack of action on Freedom of Information Act requests.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m3d31-British-Parliament-Climategate-scientists-actions-in-line-with-common-practice\">Get all the details at the Climate Change Examiner.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A formal inquiry by the British Parliament\u2019s Science and Technology Committee into the Climategate email scandal has largely absolved the British scientists involved of the most serious allegations against them. The panel did however also conclude that there were issues that needed to be addressed in order to allay public doubts about the scientists\u2019 work. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/british-parliament-into-climategate-largely-clears-scientists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">British Parliament investigation into Climategate largely clears scientists<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[736,294,315,224,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}