The researchers threw out good data on sea temperatures recorded on buoys,<br />and “corrected” it with what he said was bad data from ships, Dr. Bates said, according to The Mail.<br />Dr. Bates was demoted from a managerial role in 2012 under Thomas Karl — the lead author of the study Dr. Bates has questioned<br />— after complaints over Dr. Bates’s professional conduct, according to the former colleagues and supervisors.<br />“He was often heard saying that he, not Karl, should be running the center,” said Marjorie McGuirk, former chief of staff at the data center.<br />“The issue here is not an issue of tampering with data,” Dr. Bates said.<br />It’s like grade school,” said Glenn Rutledge, a former physical scientist at NOAA who worked with Dr. Bates.<br />Former colleagues said that, in aiming at his former boss, Dr. Bates was motivated by more than scientific zeal.<br />A few weeks ago, on an obscure climate-change blog, a retired government scientist named John Bates<br />blasted his former boss on an esoteric point having to do with archiving temperature data.<br />Rather, he said, his issue was that some of the processed data used in the report wasn’t<br />subsequently archived in accordance with strict protocols that Dr. Bates had developed.<br />And Dr. Bates himself later stated in an interview with a business news site<br />that he had not meant to suggest that his former boss had played fast and loose with temperature data.<br />According to the article in The Mail, Dr. Bates claimed that the study relied on problematic data.
