Enviro: Climate Data: Battle for climate data approaches tipping point, says NS

 Battle for climate data approaches tipping point (Dec16,2k9) New Scientist.

[University of East Anglia] UEA's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) turned down freedom of information (FOI) requests for its temperature records. Last week, the UK's Met Office attempted to quell the growing anger at its lack of openness by "releasing" data from 1700 weather stations around the world. The move was a token gesture. The Met Office has admitted to New Scientist that those figures were already publicly available through the World Meteorological Organization.

But that's only top of the now-opening can of worms.  More later.

-- Politicarp