UK: University downplays new 'climategate' emails

The university at the centre of the 'Climategate' email-hacking controversy moved swiftly last week to play down the significance of a new batch of messages between global warming researchers released on the eve of a major UN climate conference, writes Michael McCarthy for The Independent.

The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Professor Edward Acton, and the key scientist involved, Professor Phil Jones, of the university's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), went to London for a joint press conference in which they insisted the leaked emails raised no new issues of climate science.

Anonymous hackers last week posted on a Russian server another batch of the vast cache of emails hacked from the CRU's computers in November 2009, some of which were released then, it was widely assumed, with the intent of destabilising the UN climate conference in Copenhagen the following month.
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