Share the data

Anyone who has followed my criticisms of the Red Plan knows my chief desire is to let the public vote followed closely by the desire to have the data supporting the Red Plan provided to the public.

This story about the fellow who has the scientists at the British Environmental Lab so upset makes the burr under their saddle sound eminently reasonable. Some of them don’t want to share their data with him. I’m not pleased to hear climate scientists sounding like JCI pitchmen and trying to figure out how to deny the public access to their data.

I have no doubt about Global warming and few doubts that it is proceeding at a vastly faster pace due to human impact. Still, I have no criticism for anyone who demands that the date be testable. That’s one of the key requirements to anything posing as science.

This story was sent me by Vic who I have been heatedly emailing over Climategate. I checked the reporters credentials. He’s OK although he writes for a conservative Canadian publication founded by Conrad Black a multimillionaire currently cooling his heels in a Florida prison for dubious business practices.

Provenance is important when attempting to verify fairness and balance in the main stream media but so is ring of truth reporting. This seems to meet the later test and probably the former as well.

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