Open Science and climategate: The IPCC/CRU needs to take a leaf out of CERN’s Book

[ Thanks to steve
hill for this link. ]

“This is not the place to debate the immense subject of
climate science but it is necessary to say something about
“climategate” in order to explain what happens when
scientists and politicians collude to distort, hide and even
destroy critical (raw) data and methodologies which, unlike the
output of CERN, have absolutely colossal financial implications for
every man, woman and child on this planet.

“Last Year, when CERN was on the eve of launching the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) I wrote an article about how they used free
and open source software and applied the philosophy of making their
data and experiments, journals, etc freely available. I write this
article on the first day of a two-week jamboree (sorry, conference)
taking place in Copenhagen on “global warming”, a
conference which might never have come about if its evangelical
camp followers had adhered to the principles and practices of
conducting scientific research in an open and free manner. In
short, they needed to imitate their colleagues at CERN. Of course,
they won’t. The scientists and politicians have simply
invested too much time, money, pride and reputation to back down
now. The loss of face and the humility and integrity required to
admit error would be psychologically unbearable. They would
implode. But here is why the IPCC and the CRU at the University of
East Anglia should have done so.”

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