| “ | In July 2010, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a UK think tank that is is skeptical about global warming policy [1], asked Andrew Montford to lead an inquiry into the three British investigations of the Climatic Research Unit email controversy, dubbed "Climategate" in the media. [2] His report The Climategate Inquiries was published in September 2010.[3][4]
Lord Andrew Turnbull, who wrote the foreword to the GWPF report, says the University of East Anglia's internal enquiries into the Climategate affair were hasty and superficial, and called for Parliament to sponsor two wide-ranging investigations into climate science. [5] Andrew Miller, chairman of the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee, said his committee would make further investigations into conduct at the University of East Anglia, but rejected Turnbull's call for a wider Parliamentary enquiry as a "futile task". [6] Fred Pearce wrote in The Guardian that the three inquiries Montford looked into were all badly flawed, and that Montford's report ably dissects their failures. He writes that the report, "for all its sharp—and in many cases justified—rejoinders to the official inquiries ... is likely to be ignored in some quarters for its brazen hypocrisy." Pearce argues that one of the criticisms of the three inquiries was that no climate sceptics were on the inquiry teams, and now the critics themselves have produced a review of the reviews that included no one not already supportive of the sceptical position. But, Pearce wrote, Montford "has landed some good blows here." [7] A UEA spokesman said that all three of the previous inquiries had "found in favour" of its climate scientists, and added that "the GWPF report appears to offer nothing new or previously unavailable." [4] |
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Draft references
edit- ^ Caroline Davies; Suzanne Goldenberg (November 24, 2009). "The voices of climate change sceptics". The Guardian. London/Manchester. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
- ^ Foster, Peter, "Peter Foster: Checking the hockey team", National Post, July 9, 2010. "The third British investigation into the Climategate scandal -- led by former civil servant Sir Muir Russell -- amounts, at best, to a greywash. [...] The U.K.-based Global Warming Policy Foundation, an influential skeptical institution, has now appointed Mr. Montford to run an inquiry into the three British inquiries. There will be no whitewash here, "
- ^ Andrew, Montford (2010-09-14). "The Climategate Inquiries". Global Warming Policy Foundation. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
The report The Climategate Inquiries, written by Andrew Montford and with a foreword by Lord (Andrew) Turnbull, finds that the inquiries into the conduct and integrity of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia were rushed and seriously inadequate.
- ^ a b Randerson, James, "'Climategate' inquiries were 'highly defective', report for sceptic thinktank rules", The Guardian, 14 September 2010.
- ^ Andrew Orlowski interviews Andrew Turnbull, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/14/lord_turnbull_interview/
- ^ Roger Harrabin, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11303686
- ^ Pearce, Fred. "Montford lands some solid blows in review of 'climategate' inquiries", The Guardian, 14 September 2010.