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July 8, 2010

British Probe Clears "Climategate" Scientists
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A British university probe has cleared a team of scientists linked to
the so-called "Climategate" controversy last year. The University of
East Anglia launched the investigation after over 1,000 emails were
stolen from its Climatic Research Unit and publicly released. Deniers of
global warming had claimed the stolen emails provided evidence of an
effort to silence academics who have questioned or downplayed
human-driven climate change. But in the latest of several probes to
clear the scientists involved, panelists found no proof of the charges.
University of East Anglia vice chancellor Edward Acton said he hopes the
so-called controversy can be put to rest.

Edward Acton: "Today for the third and hopefully the final time, an
exhaustive independent review has exposed as unfounded the whole thrust
of allegations against our science. We hope the commentators will
accurately reflect what this highly detailed independent report says and
finally lay to rest the conspiracy theories, untruths and
misunderstandings that have circulated."

The British probe comes one week after a Penn State panel exonerated one
if its top scientists whose emails were among those released.