The CRU Hack Info Dump
November 20th, 2009 by Dan HughesA quick look at some of the info provides evidence that an Independent organization to Review and Verify all results, each and every number, that are to be used to set public policy is critically important.
Climate policy remains the sole exception to this world-wide universal standard.
The present system has been fatally compromised by the very organizations that resist Independent Review and Verification.
Maybe we’ll soon see a govrenment-level Carbon Regulatory Agency approach designed and implemented in a progressive country.
Posted in Calculation Verification, Verification | 1 Comment »
November 20th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Hi Dan,
I don’t think any IV&V process could survive a sufficiently inappropriate series of emails. (I am not saying that is the case here. That is for others to decide. I would only caution that emails are often written as if they were private and casual, more to evoke than to inform, and thus easily misinterpreted.)
But I certainly agree with you that the present system used by the climate science community must be improved and, IMHO, along the lines you have been suggesting in this blog. In order to us to have a rational vote on public policy on climate change, we must have confidence in both the science and its embodiment in the climate models. Providing this confidence is an important mission for the climate science community. They seem to be letting us down by not adopting a conventional and consensus IV&V process.
Why they feel they need their own peculiar approach to building confidence I don’t know. The IPCC would certainly be an appropriate platform to define an IV&V consensus. But the IPCC4 report (e.g., Chapter 10) did not contain anything we would recognize as IV&V. I guess IV&V is not part of their culture.