CEI overvejer søgsmål mod NASA i kølvandet af CRU

Ringene breder sig i vander efter dataindbruddet hos CRU. Hele sagen har efterhånden fået navnet CRUGate. Nu overvejer den amerikanske tænketank Competitive Enterprise Institute at sagsøge NASA for, hvad der vel kunne oversættes til 'aktindsigt på klimadata og -kommunikation' en aktindsigt NASA længe har nægtet.

CRUGate har næret CEIs mistanke om at noget fordækkes også hos NASA:

Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies' refusal - for nearly three years - to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.

The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding "ClimateGate" scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries' freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at the highest levels of international climate science bodies. Numerous informed commenters had alleged such behavior for years, all of which appears to be affirmed by leaked emails, computer codes and other data from the Climatic Research Unit of the UK's East Anglia University.

All of that material and that sought for years by CEI go to the heart of the scientific claims and campaign underpinning the Kyoto Protocol, its planned successor treaty, "cap-and-trade" legislation and the EPA's threatened regulatory campaign to impose similar measures through the back door.

Hvis det viser sig at være tilfældet, at NASA holder vigtig viden hemmelig, begynder hele affæren for alvor at stinke. Popper, hovedmanden til ideen om det åbne samfund og den største videnskabsfilosof nogensinde, ville vende sig i graven, hvis han kunne se, hvordan offentligt finansieret forskning hemmeligholdes for den offentlighed, der betaler den.

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