How many people work at top global warming establishment the Climate Research Unit?

You may have heard of the CRU - The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The establishment there is custodian of one of the only original data sets for global temperature, even institutions like NASA GISS rely on.



A vast amount of the science of global warming is based on the work carried out by the scientists at the CRU, so you probably imagine a large, busy establishment with hundreds of scientists and researchers working around the clock on this crucial issue.



The reality, however, is rather different as an ongoing Parliamentary Inquiry into the Climategate scandal has just uncovered [QUOTE]



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';';Next to [Dr Phil Jones of the CRU], holding a metaphorical hand, was Professor Edward Acton, his vice-chancellor, who interrupted at intervals to tell the committee what a splendid fellow Jones was and how his unit was doing magnificent work warning the world.



Which made it all the more astonishing that it turns out that the unit has only three full-time members. Given the importance they claim, it's as if the British army consisted of half a dozen men and an officer.';';

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JUST THREE MEMBERS OF STAFF!!



That's it. Not hundreds of top scientists with all the latest equipment. Three people run the institution on which so much of the science of man-made global warming emanates.



But are you really that surprised at this revelation?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/鈥?/a>How many people work at top global warming establishment the Climate Research Unit?
Conspiracies are best kept to the minimum size in case a disgruntled member of the team leaks incriminating evidence to the media. They wouldn't want that happening - the kind of things Phil Jones has been been doing are so shameful, he'd probably be suicidal if they ever got out.

Also it's habit - communist sleeper networks have always been organised into cells of three.How many people work at top global warming establishment the Climate Research Unit?
%26lt;%26lt;But are you really that surprised at this revelation?%26gt;%26gt; no.



how many folks does it require to maintain a computer database?

one would hope that you're not thinking that they do all of the research that's maintained in the data base.
Well, what do you expect? Specialized University departments are often quite small. Question, how many people work with John R. Christy and Roy Spencer at UAH to model the satellite temperature record?
It's important to keep the staff small. Keep the possible leakers to a minimum.

I've seen Phil Jones recently. He's looking pretty bad. Almost as if he's contemplated suicide. I wonder if he has. Hmmmm...
None of the actually work or do anything except live off the government teat.
Global warming is about greed. With only 3 people they get to keep all the research grants in their own pockets.
No that does not surprise me.

It only takes one person to start a myth anyway.

It may take money to help spread the myth, enough to help brainwash the public and they certainly have had enough of our tax money to do just that!



I love it!

Hearing another nail being driven into the coffin, Aghhhh, music to my ears.

Maybe there is still some justice in the world after all.

And the fact that you were only trying to be helpful in your quoting and the way you changed 'him' to '[Dr Phil Jones of the CRU]' may not have been the proper way of handling the quote, (I am not an English major and don't know myself how I might have done it) does not change the issue in the least.

If that is all they can come up with to try to somehow discredit you just shows how sad some of these true 'believers' really are.

Keep hammering!
3 'Academic Staff'

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/



+6 'Research Staff', +2 managers/directors, +11 postgraduate research assistants, +4 backroom staff, +11 associate fellows = 37 total, excluding the other 7 visiting fellows who appear to be UEA CRU based.



They may also do work with Environmental Sciences which has 90 doctors and professors + pdra's + PhD students (one of the PhDs I looked at was climate modeling and was shared between this department %26amp; mathematics, rather than in CRU).





Number of papers published by CRU in 2009 = 38



Many of them with co-authors from different institutions:

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/pubs/full/



Number of googlescholar hits in physical %26amp; earth sciences only for 'climate change' in 2009 was over 20k. Here are the references for chapter 2 (out of 11) for working group I of the IPCC report. Find out the proportion provided by CRU if you want:

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data鈥?/a>
I'm guessing the list of 3 three official members does not include the frustrated '; I can just make it up so I have'; computer programmer.

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/6709

how much is 13 million pounds divided 3 ways?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenha鈥?/a>

if they had been willing to share, divided it 4 ways instead of 3 %26amp; included the frustrated programmer, cru's climategate might never have happened.