The Climategate Hearings

As mentioned in the previous post, the equivalent of U.S. Congressional hearings have been taking place in Great Britain with regard to Climategate.

Video can be viewed here.

A summary of what the British media, both liberal and conservative, has reported is available here.

By far the most shocking testimony from Dr. Phil Jones (the most central 'scientist' in the Climategate scandal) was that he admitted hiding data and stated that not sharing data is "standard practice" in science!

To their great credit, the Royal societies of chemistry and statistics have weighed in that in true science data must be shared. Data sharing and independent testing is the very heart of the scientific method.

The comments to these posts are highly recommended.  This comment from a Mr. Ken Hall seems right on the money:

I think this sets out a definite difference between science and “climate science”. Clearly “climate science” does not adhere to the normal, standard expectation of science, that all data, methods, materials, data, etc., be open and shareable so that it can be fully tested, by people who support AND people who are skeptical.


Climate science is a unique scientific discipline where research begins at the conclusion and works backwards, selectively adopting (and manipulating) evidence to fit the conclusion. Where the hypothesis never changes, but the evidence changes instead to fit the hypothesis.

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