I was considering subscribing to the Times Online as I thought it was a decent news source. Clearly its reporters are either lazy or have a orders to tow the AGW line.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2010/0715/1224274726932.html

regards

As for truth finding these investigations have all gone pear-shaped. Call them “pear reviews”.

Hmmm…. how come I missed this assessment in the final report?

Rigour and Quality Assurance
4. It was noted that individual CRU researchers develop their own algorithms and
their own software to encode those algorithms. No systematic approach could
be evidenced to either peer review of algorithms or software either within or
outside the CRU. Retrieval of data sets, meta-data and documentation from
departing researchers appeared to be at best haphazard. When pressed on the
quality issues Prof. Jones noted that “one developed a feel for the data and
instinctively knew what was right”. There seemed to be little awareness that
development and testing of software has different characteristics to that for
physical systems. In physical systems, reasonable inferences can be made as to
correct operation by testing at specific points and interpolating between them.
That is not the case for software systems. A strong impression was given that
pressure on resources led to a very low priority being given to data indexing and
archiving plus software development and testing.”

Interesting that ICO believes a ‘whistleblower’ was likely source of Climategate leak. Apparently waiting for completion of Police investigation and Russell report before taking further action on three out of four of their areas of investigation.