re: #159 ludwigvanquixote

Also, CRU does not produce th vast bulk of that data. They take many many different data sets that are themselves available on the web and collate them. Since that data and those data sets themselves are perr reviewd,it is hard to find anything unkosher.

What the people who want to bitch about CRU continuously fail to take into account is that the very data that they bitch about being hidden or distorted, was neither and is easily available.

It seems to me that the CRU, and Phil Jones is being criticized for not providing data that was part of a FoI request. Multiple excuses have been put forward, including that too many requests set them back, and the untidyness of his office to explain that he couldn’t lay his hands on it. If he really couldn’t lay his hands on it, and as you point out all of it was available elsewhere, then you would have expected him to start trying to collate the data anew. OR reply to the FoI request that the data was available and simply provide the outside sources.