John Bates has an extensive blog post describing his allegations on Judith Curry's well-known blog: https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus

John Bates has an extensive blog post describing his allegations on Judith Curry's well-known blog: https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus-climate-data/ https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus... It was submitted to HN yesterday but got 4 points and 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13574012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13574012 Posts submitted to HN in the last month about the effort to back-up climate data from a suspected erasure by the Trump administration got 448 and 85 points. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13487843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13487843 [EDIT] Bates: > I read with great irony recently that scientists are “frantically copying U.S. Climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump” (e.g., Washington Post 13 December 2016). As a climate scientist formerly responsible for NOAA’s climate archive, the most critical issue in archival of climate data is actually scientists who are unwilling to formally archive and document their data. I spent the last decade cajoling climate scientists to archive their data and fully document the datasets. I established a climate data records program that was awarded a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 2014 for visionary work in the acquisition, production, and preservation of climate data records (CDRs), which accurately describe the Earth’s changing environment. [EDIT2] Rebuttal post by Peter Thorne, who was in Karl's group, although was not an author on the key paper: http://icarus-maynooth.blogspot.ca/2017/02/on-mail-on-sunday-article-on-karl-et-al.html http://icarus-maynooth.blogspot.ca/2017/02/on-mail-on-sunday...