Eduardo Zorita (born 1961 in

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) is a Spanish

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. , he is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany, where he has worked since 1996. Zorita is review editor of the journal ''

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Professional life

Zorita received his Ph.D. in solid state physics at the

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in 1988, and then held a

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appointment at the

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. He was an Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire de Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (LOCEAN),

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, 1994–95. Zorita is a regular contributor to ''Die Klimazwiebel'', a

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, Zorita and other climate scientists. In 2013 he was part of a research group confirming the hockey stick graph reconstruction.PAGES 2k Consortium: ''Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia''.

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6, 2013, 339–346, .

Climatic Research Unit email controversy

At the outset of the

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(Climategate) Zorita published his opinion on his personal web site. This was republished by ''

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'' on 5 December 2009: Zorita set up the ''Klimazwiebel'' blog shortly afterwards, on 9 December 2009. In a 2012 interview with

, Zorita said "Climategate did not show that the essentials of climate science were wrong or that anthropogenic climate change is the result of a conspiracy. It did show that some scientists were impelled to present a clean story, cleaner than it really is, and in doing so they went a bit too far." He felt that in trying to present a clear message, scientists had lost public credibility, but independent groups checking work which appeared compromised found that the original conclusions were in order. In particular, the main surface temperature datasets which had been called into question were confirmed by the Muller et al. data analysis.

Selected publications

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References

Sources and external links

Eduardo Zorita's home page
at the Institute for Coastal Research
Die Klimazwiebel
blog
Zorita's Photostream
at

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