The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose, Comrades

Multiple sources are drawing attention to this English language version of a news item published by the Kommersant, in Russia;

Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data. The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country's territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.

More context at WUWT - Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations

Steve McIntyre - "Climategate emails show that Phil Jones of CRU, acting as a reviewer of the CRU data used in the HadCRU gridded temperature, “went to town” to block the publication of criticisms of his handling of Russian data."

There's also a request for help in translating this Russian language document. http://www.iea.ru/article/kioto_order/15.12.2009.pdf

So stay tuned, and remember that when dealing with foreign newspaper reports, it's best to remain agnostic until there's independent confirmation.



Posted by Kate at December 16, 2009 6:56 PM

