British Panel Clears Scientists

New York Times by Justin Gillis | Jul. 8, 2010 (News Report)

A British panel on Wednesday exonerated the scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate of charges that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming. Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Jul. 8, 2010

This news report is good journalism. The author provides quotes from several scientists who are critical of the IPCC and the East Anglia CRU, as well as defenders. The one serious flaw is that the bigger issues raised by Climategate are not addressed: the badly flawed data sets relied on for climate modeling and the poor computing system used at the CRU.

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