British Investigation Finds IPCC Climate Change Data Credible
The British House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has issued its official report on allegations regarding potentially non-verified and non-disclosed climate change data relating to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) final report on the science of climate change and it’s relationship to human activity.
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The House of Commons report determined that the IPCC climate change data is independently verifiable (and therefore credible) and that there was no hiding of data that did not support the IPCC’s conclusion that climate change is man-made and advancing.
(In February 2007, the IPCC reported that there is a greater than 90% chance that human activity is behind most of recent climate warming and that the warming of the climate is unequivocal. Following that report, emails and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), which conducted the research for the IPCC, were leaked to the public, prompting allegations that CRU climate scientists manipulated data, withheld scientific information, and tried to hide data that did not support their conclusions. The House of Commons investigation was in response to those allegations (so-called “Climategate.”)
Report Recommends Increase in Scientific Transparency
The report also states that in the interest of transparency, climate scientists should make available all the data used to generate their published work (including raw data). Also, to allow independent verification of their conclusions, the investigators recommend that scientists take steps to make their full methodological workings available via the internet.
(See ITT Online Archives or 12/07/07 daily news, (Ref: 07120705), for BP summary of final IPCC report on the science of climate change.
See ITT Online Archives or 2/07/07 daily news, (Ref: 07020700), for BP summary of IPCC report that human activity is “very likely” the cause of climate change.)
House of Commons report dated 3/24/10 on disclosure of climate data available at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/387/387i.pdf