University of East Anglia rejects lost climate data claims
Submission ahead of next week’s parliamentary inquiry ’strongly rejects’ accusations university lost or manipulated climate data
The university at the centre of the row over emails sent by climate scientists today rejected accusations that it had lost or manipulated scientific research.
The University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has been under fire since hacked emails, which sceptics claimed showed scientists manipulating climate data, were leaked online last year.
In a submission to emails sent by climate scientists, which is investigating the disclosure of climate data from the unit, the university said it “strongly rejected” accusations that it had manipulated or selected figures to exaggerate global warming.
The university also denied suggestions that it had emails sent by climate scientists by refusing to release raw data.
And it insisted the CRU had not lost any emails sent by climate scientists.
According to the submission, allegations that scientists hid flaws and research findings were the result of misunderstandings of technical jargon or statistical analysis.
And it said the often-cited email which refers to a emails sent by climate scientists had been “richly misinterpreted and quoted out of context”.
The submission sets out science-based responses to a number of allegations that researchers attempted to mislead, misrepresent or did not effectively manage the data held at the CRU.
And it said leaked emails sent by climate scientists “appear to have been justified” in their concerns.
The University of East Anglia has launched two emails sent by climate scientists. Onewill look at the key allegations prompted by the leaking of the emails and a second review of the climate science produced by the unit.
UEA’s vice-chancellor, Professor Edward Acton, said the university was looking forward to the results of the two reviews.
In the submission, he said: “Given that the stakes for humanity are so high in correctly interpreting the evidence of global warming, we would meanwhile urge scientists, academics, journalists and public servants to resist the distortions of hearsay evidence or orchestrated campaigns of misinformation, and instead to encourage open, intelligent debate.”
A number of witnesses, including the head of the CRU, Professor Phil Jones, will appear before the committee on Monday.
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