Climategate: To Share Or Not To Share
Climategate: To Share Or Not To Share
Climategate or no climategate? Availability of climate data is one element of the so-called Climategate, the hacker incident at East Anglia University in the UK that revealed parts of an email communication among a group of international climate scientists. The fundamental factor for the science in this case, is the question of whether the data, the facts concerning climate, is correct or not. The scientific community outside the East Anglia group, wanted access to the data upon which the research was based. In this episode of A Green Space – A Green Earth I focus on data sharing: To share or not to share. Are there any obstacles?
2009 Ends Warmest Decade on Record - Global Temperature 2009. Courtesy of NASA
2009 Ends Warmest Decade on Record. Global Temperature 2000. Courtesy of NASA
Open data policy is fundamental for modern research. Scientific communities are global and we need global earth observation data to understand the Earth system. If we look beyond the data, and analyze the scientific work method (not scientific method; that is timeless and independent of context), the modern, more open society, demands more of the scientific communities.
Links and further reading:
Nature (magazine) on climate data theft and pressure on scientists
Summary from GEO in DC (Earthzine)
From BBC: ‘Show Your Working’: What ‘ClimateGate’ means. By Mike Hulme East Anglia University and Dr Jerome Ravetz
ESA open data policy.
Sentinels: ESA and EC data policy implementation strategy.
“ESA has developed the Climate Change Initiative to generate, preserve and give access to long-term data sets of the essential climate variables and make them freely available to climate research and modelling communities worldwide,”
Group on Earth Observations – GEO
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