Presenter rebuts 'missing Greenland ice core data' charge as a clerical error

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Key facts

• The discussion addresses an accusation, widely circulated on social media, that a data set from the Greenland ice core paper is missing from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
• Richards says what is missing is only the report of the numbers, and that it was in fact submitted — a record of the submission exists in the associated Geology paper.
• He says the Geology paper is hosted at Cambridge University and its authors have refused to retract it.
• Richards states the ice samples themselves were all melted, so no physical ice is missing, and calls the accusation a clerical error rather than concealment.
• He notes that few people worldwide are qualified to collect ice cores, which he says complicates independent replication.

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