Are your tax dollars
helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as
part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be "Yes."
The original Climategate
emails -- correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K.
and released on the Internet in late 2009 -- shook up the field of climate
research. Now a new batch posted in late November to a Russian server shows
that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit
refused to share their U.S. government-funded data with anyone they thought
would disagree with them.
Professor Phil Jones
asked a colleague to delete e-mails relating to a report by the U.N.'s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Making that case in
2009, the then-head of the Research Unit, Dr. Phil Jones, told colleagues
repeatedly that the U.S. Department of Energy was funding his data collection
-- and that officials there agreed that he should not have to release the data.
“Work on the land
station data has been funded by the U.S. Dept of Energy, and I have their
agreement that the data needn’t be passed on. I got this [agreement] in 2007,”
Jones wrote in a May 13, 2009,
email to British officials, before listing reasons he did not
want them to release data.
Two months later, Jones reiterated
that sentiment to colleagues, saying that the data "has to be
well hidden. I’ve discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in
the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.”
A third email
from Jones written in 2007 echoes the idea: "They are
happy with me not passing on the station data," he wrote. . . . . Read the
full story here . . . . . .
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