Memorandum submitted by Stephen McIntyre
(CRU 11)
In your terms of reference, the third question
is: "How independent are the other two international data
sets?" This question appears to presume that the principal
issue in the Climategate Letters is the CRUTEM temperature data
set.
While this is an important issue and was the
topic of the FOI inquiries that drew attention to CRU, it ignores
the other equally important aspect of CRU work and influence:
1000-year temperature reconstructions, a topic which is even more
at issue in the Climategate Letters. I suggest a companion question
along the lines perhaps of:
How independent are other 1000-year temperature
reconstructions used by IPCC?
January 2010
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