Al Gore’s “Scientific Consensus” Forced To Admit Officially That They Threw Away Climate Data

Climategate continues to grow as the London Times reports that the scientists who represent the “scientific consensus” on human-caused global warming threw away data that was inconvenient for their findings.

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

Right. Because who would want to keep the raw data? I mean, it’s not like anyone might want to question and double-check these findings which are the basis for government policies that would both increase taxes and limit liberty drastically all over the world.
The arrogance of these “scientists” (I’m not sure it’s even appropriate to use this term for them any more) is nothing short of astounding.