At issue is Britain's Climatic Research Unit, which has admitted disposing of a substantial amount of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
The unit is a premier center for reconstructing past climate and temperatures, and its conclusions are heavily instrumental in the policies adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a leading body for the assessment of climate change.
In response to an inquiry under the Freedom of Information Act, the CRU disclosed in October that the materials were dumped to save space when it moved to a new building in the 1980s, a time when climate change was not as prominent a topic. The data had been gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to account for variables, the Times of London reported. Revised figures were kept, but the originals, which were stored on paper and magnetic tape, were dumped, erasing an accountability trail.
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Source: Erin Roach, Baptist Press
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