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Learning from ClimategateNew stategies for big data
in a skeptical world
Andy RossmeisslBrighter Planet
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Science as a seice
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Report of the International Panel set up by t he University of East Anglia toexamine the research of the Climatic Research Unit.
Introduction
1. The Panel was set up by the University in consultation with the Royal Society
to assess the integrity of the research published by the Climatic Research Unitin the light of various external assertions. The Unit is a very small academic
entity within the School of Environmental Sciences. It has three full time and
one part time academic staff members and about a dozen research associates,PhD students and support staff. The essence of the criticism that the Panel was
asked to address was that climatic data had been dishonestly selected,
manipulated and/or presented to arrive at pre-determined conclusions thatwere not compatible with a fair interpretation of the original data. The
members of the Panel are listed in Appendix A at the end of this report.
2. The Panel was not concerned with the question of whether the conclusions ofthe published research were correct. Rather it was asked to come to a view on
the integrity of the Units research and whether as far as could be determined
the conclusions represented an honest and scientifically justified interpretationof the data. The Panel worked by examining representative publications by
members of the Unit and subsequently by making two visits to the University
and interviewing and questioning members of the Unit. Not all the panel were
present on both occasions but two members were present on both occasions tomaintain continuity. About fifteen person/days were spent at the University
discussing the Units work.
3. The eleven representative publications that the Panel considered in detail are
listed in Appendix B. The papers cover a period of more than twenty years and
were selected on the advice of the Royal Society. All had been published ininternational scientific journals and had been through a process of peer review.
CRU agreed that they were a fair sample of the work of the Unit. The Panel
was also free to ask for any other material that it wished and did so.
Individuals on the panel asked for and reviewed other CRU research materials.
4. The Panels work began with a detailed reading of the published work. Every
paper was read by a minimum of three Panel members at least one of whomwas familiar with the general area to which the paper related. At least one of
the other two was a generalist with no special climate science expertise but
with experience of some of the general techniques and methods employed inthe work. Most of the members of the Panel read all the publications. The
publications provided a platform from which to gain a deeper understanding of
the Units research and enabled the Panel to probe particular questions in more
detail.
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