Climatic Research Unit (Photo courtesy CRU)
The server at the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) appears to have been taken off-line. The main link and every subsidiary link now redirect to an obsolete press-releases page at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Anthony Watts noticed the problem four or five hours ago at the time of this writing. He provided a screenshot of a Google search Keith Briffa's public directory on the server, showing that links to Briffa's data from a tree-ring study of the forests in Yamal, Siberia, had been referenced as of the time of his posting.
But neither those links nor even the main link to the CRU leads to where it once led. Instead they are redirected to this link, to the UEA CRU Statements page. That page has not seen an update since 3 December 2009. The redirect page contains this message:
Due to the present high volume of visitors to this page, you will shortly be directed to the latest news about CRU on the main University of East Anglia website, or you can go there immediately by clicking on this link.
However, Watts found a link to a cache of Briffa's biography page. This page contains a number of links to Briffa's previous publications, and to his data download page. None of the links work at the time of this posting.
Ever since the initial incident involving the (accidental or deliberate) release of an archive of e-mails and documents from CRU's servers, the main link has led to a page saying that an emergency server was in operation, and some of the information available from that page, or from pages linked to it, might be out-of-date. But today, it would appear, no information from the CRU is available at all, nor is any explanation forthcoming either from CRU or UEA.
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This is a bad public relations for science in general. This will make the public trust of scientific research and support for funding of scientic research very weak.
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