While I’ve been getting lots of attention for “take down” of a single file that infringed on my copyright, another, much more broad and serious event is unfolding in the UK at the Hadley Climate Centre.
It appears that the “mole” has caused a Centre-wide panic and they are purging publicly available climate data.
If their climate science is so solid, so unassailable, why would they need to do this? Why hide the climate data gathered from public domain sources worldwide such as NOAA and NCDC? Steve McIntyre tells the story and wonders also. I’m sure all of those who complained in my case will do the same about Hadley, since it will affect the climate community worldwide. I suppose we now have a new term: “Climate Data Deniers” – Anthony
“Unprecedented” Data Purge At CRU
On July 31, 2009, the purge of public data at CRU reached levels “unprecedented” in its recorded history. Climate Audit reader Super-Grover said that the data purge was “worse” than we expected.
On Monday, July 27, 2009, as reported in a prior thread, CRU deleted three files pertaining to station data from their public directory ftp.cru.uea.ac.uk/.
The next day, on July 28, Phil Jones deleted data from his public file – see screenshot with timestemp in post here, leaving online a variety of files from the 1990s as shown in the following screenshot taken on July 28, 2009.
The following day, the following listing of station data available since 1996 (discussed in my post CRU Then and Now) was deleted from public access: ftp.cru.uea.ac.uk/projects/advance10k/cruwlda2.zip, though other data in the file remained.
This morning, everything in Dr Phil’s directory had been removed.
This is part of a broader lockdown at CRU. Ian Harris, Dave Lister, Kate Willett, Tim Osborn, Dimitrios, Clive Wilkinson and Colin Harpham all altered their FTP directories this morning. Only one directory (Tim Osborn -see below) has added material.
Revisiting the Advance 10K webpage this morning, all Advance 10K data was deleted from their FTP site. None of the Advance 10K data links at www.cru.uea.ac.uk/advance10k/climdata.htm work any more.
If you go to the directory page ftp.cru.uea.ac.uk/projects which formerly hosted ftp.cru.uea.ac.uk/projects/advance10k directory, it now contains only two directories between Sept 1999 and the present, both dated 8/1/2008, but containing data from 2001.
On July 31, 2009 at 10:41 am, Tim Osborn published a webpage entitled “controversy.htm”. It is located in a folder entitled www.cru.uea.ac.uk/people/timosborn/censored/ and the webpage www.cru.uea.ac.uk/people/timosborn/censored/controversy.htm itself is of course censored.
I presume that the data has not been totally destroyed, only that, after many years of public availability, it has been put under lock and key. It’s as though CRU is having a collective temper tantrum.
bill (11:49:07) :
Bill, I think you need a rest.
How much is the data? Do they take MasterCard?
What I don’t get is how come HadleyCRU don’t simply explain to all of us what it is that they are doing. Simple stuff, and there may well be a good reason.
They clearly need to enage a PR firm!
rcrejects, have you asked them?
rcrejects (02:14:44) :
‘What I don’t get is how come HadleyCRU don’t simply explain to all of us what it is that they are doing. Simple stuff, and there may well be a good reason.’
Let me recap the issue. The IPCC relies on research from a lot of scientists. A lot of researchers relay of “temperature data” from Jones and Hansen to project their computer generated “pet theories” models which have been “peer reviewed”. Steve at Climate Audit broke Mann’s “Hockey Stick” (which took a US Senate investigation) brings up the question. If past temperature used by IPCC is wrong, how reliable is modern temperature data?
According to IPCC regulations, all data used by the IPCC shall be made available (See Climate Audit). The IPCC told Steve (Climate Audit) it not their job to provide the “Data” (If the IPCC wanted to, they could force Jones to release the “data” but they choose not to.)
HadCrut purging temp data is kind of like the time when Rosemary Woods “purged” 18 minutes of Nixon’s phone records.
Purging is easy: Rx.for bored climatologists: Take three spoons/day of castor oil.
These guys possibly ignore there is an international law priciple called “habeas data”, which obliges to render all data to the public.
Aw, it’s just a scientific law.