[Hoot Gibson]

Data? What data?

Notice how quiet those who have previously insisted that man-made global warming is settled science have grown on this forum? You know, the ones who attempted to paint skeptics as Luddites.

Now we learn that much of the raw data on which the Hadley Climate Centre had supposedly based its dire global warming predictions no longer exists. How convenient.

I confess that I had never even heard of the University of East Anglia before this recent controversy. This group is frequently referenced as the "Hadley Climate Center" when global warming alarmists want to bolster their arguments. I wonder why the name switch now that the frauds have been exposed? Has the University of East Anglia been tossed under the bus so that "Hadley" can continue to be used to confuse this issue?

[INDENT]Climate change data dumped

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.[/INDENT]