ABSTRACT
The Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom, is recognized as one of the world’s leading institutions on climate change. CRU pioneered research using tree rings, anthropogenic climate change studies, and historical reports on natural environments around the world before thermometers and other scientific measurement tools were available to evaluate the patterns of climate change. Since the CRU has its own code for analysis, which it refuses to share, a scandal arose when the unauthorized publication of internal emails, just before the 2009 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Copenhagen was to meet, created doubt about the authenticity of its findings. External audits that failed to find CRU responsible for misleading researchers and the public, were rejected so that reverberations from “Climategate,” as it was called in the UK, continued into 2010. Then in 2011, just before the international meeting in Durban, South Africa, thousands more messages, apparently from the same, original source, were made public, to little consequence. The crisis continues.
