What is details on Climate scientists accused of manipulating global warming data?”
The material was taken from servers at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit – a world-renowned climate change research centre – before it was published on websites run by climate change sceptics. It has been claimed that the emails show that scientists manipulated data to bolster their argument that global warming is genuine and is being caused by human actions. One email seized upon by sceptics as supposed evidence of this, refers to a “trick” being employed to massage temperature statistics to “hide the decline”. The university yesterday confirmed that research data had been stolen and published online and said it had reported the security breach to police. A spokesman said: “We are aware that information from a server used for research information in one area of the university has been made available on public websites. “Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm that all this material is genuine. “This information has been obtained and p
