The Met Office national weather service has said it will publish data from weather stations worldwide and has "every confidence" it would show temperatures had risen in
the last 150 years. The decision comes in the wake of claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views.
A Met Office spokesman said; "The Met Office intends to release data from more than 1,000 weather stations. It will be available on our website."
The Met Office works closely with the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, a world-leader in the field, which is at the centre of a current climate data row. A
United Nations panel is to probe claims that CRU scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views, its head said Friday ahead of the landmark
Copenhagen summit. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the claims were serious and needed to be investigated. Computer hackers
penetrated the CRU and posted online thousands of emails from researchers. The emails allegedly called into question the scientific basis for climate change.
British weather service to publish 150 years of data. The Independent, Dec 06.