Barrel Strength

When you look at the work being done on the East Anglia data by different software professionals, it is hard not to see it as a forensics exercise. All we see are the results – the crime – and scraps and pieces of what led up to to it. On Bishop Hill and Strata-Sphere and other sites, people are trying to figure out where the climate data came from, and what the researchers did with it to reach their conclusions.  The picture that emerges, even for someone who knows nothing about programming, really does point to a sustained effort to derive a predetermined outcome. This impression is sustained by the energy with which various scientists resisted sharing their original source data. Some of it somehow just kind of went away in the eighties, for lack of storage space. Some cannot be released because it was purchased from the states or entities that own it.  If that is the case, it would perhaps be within the means of investigators to buy the data themselves.