Climategate: the end of another investigation

[profpr]

 Закончилось уже третье официальное расследование климатгейта. Результат тот же: обвиняемые в подтасовке данных ученые полностью оправданы, а обвинения признаны ложными.

... we are satisfied that the CRU tree-ring work has been carried out with integrity, and that allegations of deliberate misrepresentation and unjustified selection of data are not valid... we can judge the methods which CRU has employed are fair and satisfactory... We believe that CRU did a public service of great value by carrying out much time-consuming meticulous work on temperature records at a time when it was
unfashionable and attracted the interest of a rather small section of the scientific community. CRU has been among the leaders in international efforts to determining the overall uncertainty in the derived temperature records and where work is best focussed to improve them... We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we would have detected it. Rather we found a small group of dedicated if slightly disorganised researchers who were ill-prepared for being the focus of public attention.

Чуть раньше парламентская комиссия UK полностью оправдала Phil Jones по обвинениям в утаивании научных данных.

Comments

[agershenson.livejournal.com]

ч.т.д.

[jnuk.livejournal.com]

Good

[scholar-vit.livejournal.com]

А как дысали, как дысали...

[ssteplana.livejournal.com]

прочитала, что главный герой - phil - рассматривал попытку самоубийства. ужасно быть публичной фигурой. а была самая настоящая травля - от такой и кончали самоубийством наши поэты. только у ученых кожа, наверное, потолще :)

не все так благостно и безоблачно

[tyoma-cat.livejournal.com]

http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/oxburgh

The Report points out where things might have been done better. One is to engage more with professional statisticians in the analysis of data. Another, related, point is that more efficacious statistical techniques might have been employed in some instances (although it was pointed out that different methods may not have produced different results). Specialists in many areas of research acquire and develop the statistical skills pertinent to their own particular data analysis requirements. However, we do see the sense in engaging more fully with the wider statistics community to ensure that the most effective and up-to-date statistical techniques are adopted and will now consider further how best to achieve this.

Another area for suggested improvement is in the archiving of data and algorithms, and in recording exactly what was done. Although no-one predicted the import of this pioneering research when it started in the mid-1980’s, it is now clear that more effort needs to be put into this activity. CRU, and other parts of the climate science community, are already making improvements in these regards, and the University will continue to ensure that these imperatives are maintained.

The Independent Climate Change E-mail Review investigation is underway, and therefore some important issues are still under active consideration.