Cramer Rust Uit ? (Climate data ‘not well organise d’ and MWP debate ‘not settled’ )

[Henk Elegeert]

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CRU’s Jones: Climate data ‘not well organised’ and MWP debate ‘not
settled’<http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/12/crus-jones-climate-data-not-well-organised-and-mwp-debate-not-settled/>
12022010

>From the BBC

By Roger Harrabin, Environment analyst, BBC News

[image: Professor Phil Jones]

*Phil Jones, the professor behind the “Climategate” affair, has admitted
some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised.*

He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics – a
decision he says he regretted. But Professor Jones said he had not cheated
the data, or unfairly influenced the scientific process. He said he stood by
the view that recent climate warming was most likely predominantly
man-made. But he agreed that two periods in recent times had experienced
similar warming. And he agreed that the debate had not been settled over
whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period.

These statements are likely to be welcomed by people sceptical of man-made
climate change who have felt insulted to be labelled by government ministers
as flat-earthers and deniers.

*‘Bunker mentality’*

Professor Jones agreed that scientists on both sides of the debate could
suffer sometimes from a “bunker mentality”. He said “sceptics” who doubted
his climate record should compile their own dataset from material publicly
available in the US. “The major datasets mostly agree,” he said. “If some of
our critics spent less time criticising us and prepared a dataset of their
own, that would be much more constructive.” His colleagues said that keeping
a paper trail was not one of Professor Jones’ strong points. Professor Jones
told BBC News: “There is some truth in that. “We do have a trail of where
the (weather) stations have come from but it’s probably not as good as it
should be,” he admitted.

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h/t Andrew Montford, See more at the BBC
*here*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511701.stm>

Q&A: Phil Jones <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm

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*C*ramer

*R*ust

*U*it ?? ;)

Henk Elegeert

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