Hmm I think Pete and Ken (comments on the page) answered this one pretty well. ------ >How could anyone who calls himself a scientist allow the primary data a

Hmm I think Pete and Ken (comments on the page) answered this one pretty well. ------ >How could anyone who calls himself a scientist allow the primary data and metadata to be destroyed? Copies of the primary data. >Somebody will have to do the work of collating raw historical data from weather stations all over again before we will know anything If only someone like NASA had also been keeping an instrumental record, we could check to see if they agreed with the HadCRUT record. ------- Skip – most of the climate data the CRU disposed of was hard copy, and one of the reasons it WAS disposed of is because they felt that the digitization efforts of other climate research teams covered it adequately. For example, the open source data sets put out by UCAR include the raw and adjusted data, and is gathered from the same sources that the CRU massaged data comes from.