Global Warming Ate My Data

The world’s source for global temperature record admits it’s lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record. The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia - permitting it to snub FoIA requests to see the data.

The CRU (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/) has refused to release the raw weather station data and its processing methods for inspection - except to hand-picked academics - for several years. Instead, it releases a processed version (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/#datdow), in gridded form. NASA maintains its own (GISSTEMP), but the CRU Global Climate Dataset, is the most cited surface temperature record by the UN IPCC. So any errors in CRU (http://www.john-daly.com/cru/index.htm) cascade around the world, and become part of “the science”.