The Muir Russel review investigation of the Climategate emails rejected the vast majority of allegations including all the claims made about tree-ring data, breaking of IPCC rules, and manipulating peer review. Only accusations of unwillingness to share data and a single misleading graph held up
…R has examined the entire ICCER report as well as some of submissions that were most often mentioned in the ICCER report, and has found that the ICCER specifically addressed nearly all the points within their purview and overwhelming rejected the specific allegations made against the CRU scientists.
In order to test whether CRU withheld information from critics and whether such withholding data would have even mattered, the ICCER undertook a test project. The ICCER tracked down public climate data, wrote their own code to process the data, and then compared their results against the actual CRUTEM, NCDC, and NASA land temperature records. In the process, the ICCER found the following:Anyone working in this area would have knowledge of the availability of data from these sources.
Any independent researcher may freely obtain the primary station data. It is impossible for a third party to withhold access to the data.
It is impossible for a third party to tamper improperly with the data unless they have also…
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Last CRU investigation overwhelmingly rejects allegations
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