Missed opportunity of probe into UK climate research unit
7 Jul 2010
London – The team of top professors, jetted in to Norwich (see story) to investigate the activities of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have reached their conclusions.
As expected, they have come up with some qualified criticisms of their Prof Jones and his team’s lack of openness, but cleared them of burying data inconvenient to their research. Indeed, they now reassure us that all of the CRU’s findings are based on solid scientific evidence.
The academics have not, however, addressed the underlying problem here: the unhealthy relationship between the worlds of science and politics, which continues to marginalise and/or exclude the input of most of us from the environmental debate – including many among the the 80% of businesses (see story) that now believe the UK’s emission reductions targets are “unrealistic”.
