Brits propose a do over on global warming data

Fox News:

After the firestorm of criticism called Climate-gate, the British government's official Meteorological Office apparently has decided to wave a white flag and surrender.

At a meeting on Monday of about 150 climate scientists in the quiet Turkish seaside resort of Antalya, representatives of the weather office (known in Britain as the Met Office) quietly proposed that the world's climate scientists start all over again on a "grand challenge" to produce a new, common trove of global temperature data that is open to public scrutiny and "rigorous" peer review.

In other words, conduct investigations into modern global warming in a way that the Met Office bureaucrats hope will end the mammoth controversy over world temperature data they collected that has been stirred up by their secretive and erratic ways.

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... "we feel that it is timely to propose an international effort to reanalyze surface temperature data in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which has the responsibility for global observing and monitoring systems for weather and climate."

The new effort, the proposal says, would provide:

--"verifiable datasets starting from a common databank of unrestricted data"
--"methods that are fully documented in the peer reviewed literature and open to scrutiny;"
--"a set of independent assessments of surface temperature produced by independent groups using independent methods,"
--"comprehensive audit trails to deliver confidence in the results;"
--"robust assessment of uncertainties associated with observational error, temporal and geographical in homogeneities."

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It is a start. So many doubts have been raised about the collection of this data in the past that the current argument has lost credibility. In the US, Sen. Imhof has asked for a criminal investigation of the climate change arguments and those who sponsored them.