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Institute Of Physics Calls for Climate-gate Enquiry

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    Institute Of Physics Calls for Climate-gate Enquiry

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03...ysics_climate/

    The body representing 36,000 UK physicists has called for a wider enquiry into the Climategate affair, saying it raises issues of scientific corruption. The Institute of Physics doesn’t pull any punches in the submission, one of around 50 presented to the Commons Select Committee enquiry into the Climategate archive. The committee holds its only oral hearing later today.
    The IOP says the enquiry should be broadened to examine possible "departure from objective scientific practice, for example, manipulation of the publication and peer review system or allowing pre-formed conclusions to override scientific objectivity."
    It deplores the climate scientists’ "intolerance to challenge" and the "suppression of proxy results for recent decades that do not agree with contemporary instrumental temperature measurements."
    Coffee's for closers

    #2
    It's about time science got involved in this.

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      #3
      Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
      It's about time science got involved in this.
      WHS^100

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        #4
        The last time something like this happened, it was being nailed to the church door in Wittenburg




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          #5
          Heretics - burn them

          (But make sure the combustion products are captured and stored in environmentally sound reservoirs such as shale pits)
          How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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            #6
            Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
            Heretics - burn them

            (But make sure the combustion products are captured and stored in environmentally sound reservoirs such as shale pits)
            …and pay some contractors to build and test the database that stores all their particulars.
            And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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              #7
              Institute of Physics condemns junk science
              I'm alright Jack

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                #8
                What seems to have riled the 36,000 physicists, is that the sceptics had to go via a Freedom Of Information request to try to get the base data and the workings.
                This of course should have been offered freely, according to the scientific method.

                Out of all the dozens of things that might have gotten them angry, it was that one little thing.

                We truly live in interesting times.


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                  #9
                  well as all most scientist want to do is actual verify or disprove someones hypothesis then a lack of access to the data which was used to create this hypothesis is quite critical.

                  But the main thing is people all normally hide things when they have something to hide.

                  Like now when they have obviously been making up results to please the climate change brigade.

                  I mean look at what happen to the drugs minister fella who said that actually drugs were ok ish - sacked on the spot for not spouting the party rhetoric

                  why do I suddenly feel I am living in Stalinist Russia?

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                    #10
                    Absolutely. The freedom of data so long as it doesn't compromise an individual (e.g., data protection principles) or a piece of IP (which it shouldn't given that what we're talking about here is raw data) should always be there.

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