claim: It found the scientists' rigour and honesty are not in doubt, and their behaviour did not prejudice the IPCC's conclusions, though they did fail to display the proper degree of openness.
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:135
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: Scientific integrity demands robust, independent peer review, however, and AAAS therefore emphasised that investigations are appropriate whenever significant questions are raised regarding the transparency and rigour of the scientific method, the peer-review process, or the responsibility of individual scientists.
evidences.votes: REFUTES SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:163
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: The committee criticised a "culture of non-disclosure at CRU" and a general lack of transparency in climate science where scientific papers had usually not included all the data and code used in reconstructions.
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:239
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: The report, issued on 18 February 2011, cleared the researchers and "did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data or failed to adhere to appropriate peer review procedures".
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Global warming conspiracy theory:12
evidences.article: Global warming conspiracy theory
evidences.evidence: The Muir Russell report stated that the scientists' "rigor and honesty as scientists are not in doubt," that the investigators "did not find any evidence of behavior that might undermine the conclusions of the IPCC assessments," but that there had been "a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness."
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:33
evidences.article: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
evidences.evidence: This document also states that IPCC will do this work by assessing "on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis" of these topics.
evidences.votes: REFUTES SUPPORTS