(Community Matters) Ron Oxburgh, a former chairman of Shell, led the investigation into the scientific analysis of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia and its conclusions about climate change/global warming – their conclusions a matter of much debate ever since hacked e-mails from the unit were made public less than five months ago. They were looking to see if the analysis had been biased and manipulated and concluded that if there was any malpractice at CRU they would have detected it. They found no such thing. Instead they found “dedicated if slightly disorganised researchers ill-prepared for public attention”. (they did not opine on the accuracy of the scientific findings)
The scientists in “climategate” did not fudge the data, a report finds
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