Who 'holds' the working papers of the 'climategate' inquiry?

摘要

In 2009 someone hacked into e-mails belonging to the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and leaked them widely. Climate change sceptics whooped with delight because they thought that the e-mails showed attempts to suppress or gerrymander climate data (see for example James Delingpole~2 with some of the ticklish e-mails, and for more background, less tendentiously put, my post on an earlier UEA case). And the CRU data was important; it had made its way into the highly influential IPCC reports. UEA understandably thought that something needed doing in response to the leaks, and commissioned an inquiry, the Independent Climate Change E-mail Review. ICCER reported in 2010, concluding that there had not been any systematic manipulation of data, although there had been a lack of openness by CRU in dealing with requests for information.