The Royal Meteorological Society offers its support to the Independent Review of the Climatic Research Unit

We have been concerned over recent days about the challenges made on the quality and integrity of the science conducted by the team in the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.  The Climatic Research Unit is a very well respected and well regarded team of scientists who have, over many years, made a substantial contribution to the understanding of our climate, most notably in their work on global and regional temperature data sets.

It is of course right that their science should be open to independent and transparent scrutiny.  The team have conscientiously and diligently subjected their finding and methods to peer review in well-recognised international science journals and their work is consistent with the findings of other centres around the world, working with similar data but using independent methods.

Yesterday the University of East Anglia announced that they will be holding an Independent Review, under the chairmanship of Sir Muir Russell, into the recent allegations against the Climatic Research Unit that arose from a series of leaked e-mails.  We welcome this review and pledge our support to Sir Muir in helping him in any way we are able with his investigations.