Scattered Ink: Review clears US researchers of misdeeds in climate research (Think e-mails)
Did anybody run this front page? In the NY Times, under Leslie Kaufman‘s byline and the single column hed Scientists Are Cleared Of Misuse of Data, it was on p. A18. So dies ClimateGate (in a perfect world). The news, which reinforces similar conclusions reached by investigators in ClimateGate Central, the UK, is that for all their snark about climate contrarians the scientists whose e-mails touched it off did not distort, hide, or deliberately analyze incorrectly the data they’d gathered on the world’s climate, weather, or much of anything else – except for being impolite behind their backs to people who had been hooting about their work.
The news is that after Senator James Inhofe requested that the Inspector General of the Natinal Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration investigate whether any of its affiliated scientists whose e-mails were among the purloined missives had fooled around with data or otherwise committed misleading or fraudulent scientists, the IG found no such thing.
Other stories:
- USA Today – Wendy Koch: NOAA climate scientists cleared in US report;
- NYTimes (Dot Earth Blog) Andrew C. Revkin: Slim Pickings for Climate Science Critics in Inspector General Report ;
- Washington Post (blog) Brian Vastag: Commerce Dept. report clears U.S. scientists in ‘climategate’ ; He reports, without phrasing it this way, that Inhofe’s office li…, uh, misspeaks in its response to the new report.
- Reuters – Timothy Gardner : US clears NOAA scientists in climate email review ;
- AP – Randolph Schmid: New report exonerates climate researchers ; Not only have the Brits already cleared their people of anything egregious, but the NRC and a Penn State investigation over here have too, it says here. That’s a lot. Maybe answers why it’s not p.1 in NYT.
- AAAS ScienceInsider – Eli Kintisch: US Ocean Agency Mostly Unscathed on Climate E-mails Inquiry ;
- Huffington Post – Travis Walter Donovan : ‘Climategate’ Investigation Clears U.S. Scientists ;
Grist for the Mill:
NOAA Press Release ; NOAA IG report ; Sen. James Inhofe office Press Release ;
- Charlie Petit
