Raw climate data to be made available by weather agencies
FEB 24, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024108
Yahoo! News : The world weather agencies have agreed to collect more precise temperature data under a proposal from the UK’s Met Office .The proposal asks climate scientists around the world to measure land surface temperatures as often as several times a day, and allow independent scrutiny of the data—a move that would go some way toward answering demands by skeptics for access to the raw figures used to predict climate change."This effort will ensure that the datasets are completely robust and that all methods are transparent,” said the Met Office. The agency added that “any such analysis does not undermine the existing independent datasets that all reflect a warming trend."The proposal was approved in principle by some 150 delegates meeting under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization this week in Antalya, Turkey.
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