Dec
ClimateGate Fallout Continues
Last week, Rajendra Pachauri, who heads the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told BBC Radio that there would be a full investigation of the revelations contained in e-mails and documents leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. This must have been done awfully quickly, as the IPCC’s Working Group I released a statement on Friday announcing it “condemns the illegal act which led to private emails being posted on the Internet and firmly stands by the findings of the AR4 and by the community of researchers worldwide whose professional standards and careful scientific work over many years have provided the basis for these conclusions.” Meanwhile, the UK’s Met Office announced it would fully reexamine its temperature records to ensure the records are accurate and reliable, even though the reexamination could take three years and is opposed by the British government…
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