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The Independent Climate Change Email Review — a.k.a. the Muir Russell review — into over 1000 hacked emails of scientists at the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Climate Research Unit (CRU) announced its findings today. The review, which was the second commissioned by the UEA, focused on the conduct of the scientists involved and assessed [...]

The results of an inquiry into the conduct of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia were released overnight in Britain and cleared the scientists of “deliberate scientific malpractice”. The independent inquiry panel set up by the University of East Anglia in the wake of the “climategate” email leaks, was led by Ron Oxburgh, [...]

Eloise Gibson of the New Zealand Herald writes about the recent ‘Climategate’ scandal, in which emails stolen from a leading climate research institute have prompted claims by some that anthropogenic climate change is a scam. There has been much debate over the actual importance of the emails – in this article, Eloise looks at some [...]

New Zealand climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger is among an international group of climate scientists quoted in emails obtained from the University of East Anglia’s climate research unit and leaked onto the internet. The so-called “climategate” emails have been seized on by climate change sceptics who claim they show leading climate scientists have manipulated data [...]