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Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say - by Gene J. Koprowski
Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say
The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over doctored data continues to unfold.
Written By: Gene J. Koprowski
Published In: FoxNews.com
Publication date:
12/02/2009
Publisher: Fox News Network, LLC
The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over climate data continues to unfold.
The latest revelation came on Sunday with the publication of a report by The Sunday Times of London that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded.
The discarded data isn’t lost permanently, since archives exist in other locations, notably servers at the Global Historical Climatology Network. Yet CRU's actions make it more challenging for other scientists to cross-check the facts.
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