Probe clears climate change research unit

EMAILS stolen from one of the world’s leading climate change research centres contained no evidence to undermine the case for manmade global warming, a report found yesterday.

An investigation into the British research unit cleared its scientists of serious wrongdoing, but criticised their lack of openness and said some of their data was misleading.

The University of East Anglia, eastern England, launched the inquiry after 1,000 emails hacked from its climate research unit were put on the internet and held up as evidence scientists had exaggerated or lied about man’s role in global warming.