Christopher C. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for raw scientific data to James Hansen, Director at the Goddard Institute, two years ago. To this date Horner has not receive his requested information and said he will sue NASA if they do not comply with the request by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, the New York Times refuses to acknowledge the scandal in context of reporting on the coming climate change summit in Copenhagen. However, they are finally discussing the scandal in the opinion columns of John Tierney and Andrew Revkin.
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written by Pete , December 10, 2009
This whole thing is very disturbing. Science is about being open to scrutiny so that theories may evolve and correct over time. Hiding data and methodology and preventing others from replicating your results is tremendously questionable. Given the number of scientists who forget that concensus is not science and sign up for surveys saying they agree with AGW theory it is queting to think about the implications if this consensus was driven by bad or manipulated data and questionable methodologies.
For more fun try searching CNN.com for "climategate" - as of a couple of days ago, at least, there was only one article that mentioned the word. The others that had CRU were focused on the crime of the servers being hacked. I don't condone the hacking one bit, but it has had an effect on bringing more openness to this debate.
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