PRESS RELEASE
Stockholm March 5, 2010
Climate scientist delivers false statement in parliament enquiry
It has come to our attention, that last Monday (March 1), Dr. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU), in a hearing with the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee made a statement in regards to the alleged non-availability for disclosure of Swedish climate data.
Dr. Jones asserted that the weather services of several countries, including Sweden, Canada and Poland, had refused to allow their data to be released, to explain his reluctance to comply with Freedom of Information requests.
This statement is false and misleading in regards to the Swedish data.
All Swedish climate data are available in the public domain. As is demonstrated in the attached correspondence between SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), the UK Met Office and Dr. Jones (the last correspondence dated yesterday March 4), this has been clearly explained to Dr. Jones. What is also clear is that SMHI is reluctant to be connected to data that has undergone “processing” by the East Anglia research unit.
STOCKHOLM INITIATIVE
Göran Ahlgren, secretary general
Kungsgatan 82
12 27 Stockholm, Sweden
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They included attached PDF files. which I have uploaded to WUWT below. Click for PDF files:
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Uninvited massaging of data…
So did Phil harrass the data and perjur himself?
A+!
Stockholm Syndrome
“In cases where Stockholm syndrome has occurred, the captive is in a situation where the captor has stripped nearly all forms of independence and gained control of the victim’s life, as well as basic needs for survival. Some experts say that the hostage regresses to, perhaps, a state of infancy; the captive must cry for food, remain silent, and exist in an extreme state of dependence. In contrast, the perpetrator serves as a mother figure protecting her child from a threatening outside world,”
Maybe it’s time for another definition. Standing up and calling out people who lie about climate issues.
Talk about lack of confidence in UEA!!!!!!!
In other words the Swedes did not want them to release processed/fiddled data. Good for them.
Didn’t he also say that Canada wouldn’t agree, either?
Interestingly it is all countries fairly far north they list, where the ‘warming’ has been the most extreme. Canada also has its data public on a website.
And then the requests basically say, our temps don’t match your temps (but we’d like to release them as yours). I’d be very interested to compare the two sets, I bet my socks that the UEA’s version is warmer than the national ones.
AGW people delivering false statements?? Now that’s news!
The SMH will not be attached to data that has undergone CRU “processing.”
Fancy that.
Corbyn’s SLAM (Solar Lunar Amplification Magnetic) process explains Jones’ beloved hadSST (Hadley Sea Surface Temperature):
http://www.sfu.ca/~plv/SLAMhadSST58a.png
More here:
http://www.sfu.ca/~plv/VolcanoStratosphereSLAM.htm
They are also of course free to release the SMHI data that is real, the other ‘various sources’ and then the method they used to create their own data. Why the reluctance for that? One can only guess.
Unless I am missing something, it was Acton who claimed that Sweden did not allow publication. Jones was sitting next to Acton at the time and presumably knew that this was not correct, or was misleading.
From: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/uc387-i/uc38702.htm
“Professor Acton: Unfortunately, several of these countries impose conditions and say you are not allowed to pass it on, so there has just been an attempt to get these answers. Seven countries have said “No, you cannot”, half the countries have not yet answered, Canada and Poland are amongst those who have said, “No you cannot publish it” and also Sweden.”
I’d like to see Jones original request – its specific wording would be of interest.
But on the face of it – and absent other information – I’d have to say the original Swedish response “reads” like a refusal.
Being quite a AGW skeptic, I must admit that this observation does not particularly please me. It gives cover where – I believe – none was intended, nor deserved.
Not that I would want to gloat over this “Death of a thousand cuts” but it would be refresing to see the same kind of exposure applied here in the U.S. It’s a sad commentary that the American Free Press is avoiding this scandal like the plague.
Boy he sure do keep digging doesn’t he. He is going to make Nixon look like a piker when it comes to coverups.
I’ll bet this made Jones madder than a wet cat! So now it all makes sense. These various sources didn’t want their data released by JONES!
That is a whole ‘nother “peanut butter n jelly samich”, than sayin, “These sources don’t want their data released”.
My hat is off to the man. He sho’nuff can spin.
Canada also has said that their data is available on their website. Seems that they had the same reluctance to have CRU put out massaged data. I could not, however, find where I could download historical data for the entire country. Sweden’s data is not helpful as the website linked is in Swedish, naturally.
Does this means that some of the country agencies originating the data didn’t want the CRU data released because it had been massaged and would therefore be different from the data made available by these agencies directly?
And they had little confidence in the efficacy of the massage?
Wow!
Make sure you read the attached PDFs. They are quite illuminating.
So the SMHI data is on the Web, is that what they are saying?
I thought that they where not allowed to publish the data on the CRU-website, and that the data where available at the source-website – like the swedish site?
Pants on fire . . .
Amazing!! … In other words don’t release data you claim is from Sweden if you are going to put it through your Mann-made global warming algore-ithm … however our unadjusted data is available to anyone.
It sounds like this is where Dr. Jones is coming from. He massaged the Swedish data making the data his as the Swedes no longer would have anything to do with the data. He never kept the original since it was freely available. The massaged data was therefore only available (or released) to those to whom he chose to give the data.
haa haa now I understand why Dr. Phil Jones didn’t want to release Swedish data:
“I tried for years to obtain the data that the IPCC was based on a claim that the climate in the Nordic region has become warmer, “says Karlén Wibjörn who is Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at Uppsala. This did not with my own calculations show that the Nordic countries have not undergone any unusual warming, but both Philip Jones and Kevin Trenberth simply refuses to hand over the data.”
http://www.svensktidskrift.se/?p=2213