The climate scientists from the prestigious University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the scandal that erupted after 13 years of emails were leaked. Some of the emails had contained complaints about inadequate science put forth by researchers claiming to debunk the emerging consensus of scientific findings on climate destabilization, but the inquiry found no inappropriate measures were taken by anyone to suppress evidence or censor the science.
The Guardian reported from the hearings:
The science of global warming: This is not part of today’s inquiry but even if it was the report couldn’t do anything other than fully back the assertion that greenhouse gases emitted as a result of human activities are causing the world to warm. The allegations by former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and other sceptics that the emails were a “smoking gun” — or even a “mushroom cloud” — showing global warming is a scam were themselves utterly bogus, as Fred Pearce comprehensively shows here.
