An independent panel of academics in Britain has cleared climate scientists at the University of East Anglia of allegations, based on hacked e-mail messages, that they manipulated data related to man-made global warming, The Wall Street Journal reported. In its report to the university, the panel said it had found “no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice.” A committee in Parliament reached a similar conclusion last month. The latest report, however, did express surprise that the scientists had not worked more closely with professional statisticians.
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4 Responses to Panel Clears British Climate Researchers of Allegations of Malpractice
hawkeye411 - April 15, 2010 at 9:07 am
Fox News commentators have been apologizing non-stop this morning for their rush to judgement on this story.
swish - April 15, 2010 at 10:38 am
Very funny.
dank48 - April 15, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Thank heaven. I was afraid they would run out of whitewash.
ocean7 - April 15, 2010 at 8:17 pm
The last sentence in this article seems to imply shoddy statistics, which is what the climate scientists (and the IPCC) used as the foundation of their conclusions. Since the scientists won’t release there data, or, have manipulated it so much to the point that they don’t know what the original data was, I would think it would be difficult to base reliable conclusions on their work. “The latest report, however, did express surprise that the scientists had not worked more closely with professional statisticians.”