Lord Oxburgh and his colleagues were not concerned with whether CRU's scientific findings, which are based on records of temperature change from instruments and natural proxies, were correct.

从仪器量测和自然界代表性物体所取得的温度变化记录是CRU论述的根据。

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Having been in both academia and industry, Lord Oxburgh said he has no doubt that in industry, where companies, not researchers, own the data, the record-keeping would have been better, but that the team would have done much less good research.

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