Tuesday
Oct262010
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill S&TC to grill Russell, Davies, Acton
Oct 26, 2010 Climate: CRU Climate: Parliament Climate: Russell The big news of tomorrow is likely to be the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee interviewing UEA bigwigs Acton and Davies, together with Sir Muir Russell. The three of them are going to have to explain some of the oddities over the inquiries into the Climategate affair.
The hearings start at 9:20 am and video should be available here.
This should be compelling viewing for climate geeks. As ever, I'll be liveblogging events here.
Reader Comments (56)
Sorry - the document title is "Code of Practice for the Management of Records...."
Martin A
Its, oh no, hear we go again time....
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climate audit has some fresh grist for Stringer's mill.
http://climateaudit.org/2010/10/26/without-oversight-or-challenge/
Mac
Please read the current guest post on the Air Vent. Note the first comment by Jeff Id 'If she keeps going, I can quit blogging soon'.
@Cumbrian Lad
Those appear to be the Lord Chancellor's record management guidelines. UEA is subject to those, as the old Code of Practise mentions (item 10, p. 7). However, UEA also had its own internal records management guidelines (item 12 on the same page). The link I provided is the URL of those (former) internal Guidelines, as they appear in the (former) Code of Practise. (Both documents have now been superseded.)
The Lord Chancellor's guidelines are worth looking at: they're fairly deletion-happy in general, but take a dim view of unscheduled, ad-hoc deletions. Those are the guidelines as they stood at 2009, though, so there might have been some changes since 2008.
@Steve McIntyre
Sorry, I haven't been able to find a working link to the document: I did search Google and the UEA website back in July, but came up dry, and a quick check now doesn't grant any better success. I'm afraid I was trying to be funny at UEA's expense by using the link to the Guidelines that appeared in the Code of Practise. I think that the Guidelines are now gone from that URL, actually, not simply password-protected. (I had a different impression back in July, but I don't remember exactly why now.) Either way, it might be worth contacting UEA to request it, if only for the possible amusement value of having UEA refuse a FOI request for its old Guidelines for the Management of Records under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In the form of many a great "you know your a redneck, when"
You know your a science geek when, "you are live blogging a House of Commons hearing".
Just saying :) Have fun all! Of course I will be hoping (not expecting) for the truth to come out.