Well, let's get back on subject, the Oxburgh Report that looked into the allegations arising from the hacked emails, or "climategate, as the denialists dubbed it.
Here is a pertinent quote from their report;
“We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we would have detected it,” says the Oxburgh report. “Rather we found a small group of dedicated if slightly disorganised researchers who were ill-prepared for being the focus of public attention.”
This report reviewed 11 publications considered to be representative of the CRU’s output (including two papers published in Nature). These cover direct temperature observations and the tree ring work that has caused many climate change sceptics to get so hot under the collar.
The tree-ring work was considered by the panel to have been “carried out with integrity” and the methods used in the direct temperature work were “fair and satisfactory”. However, the lack of proper statistical input into CRU’s research did displease Oxburgh’s panel.So there was no manipulation of data to deceive people, or to change the scientific value of their work, but has a single denialist acknowledged that fact?
Of course not, they keep repeating their lies, because they "Believe" them, once more they show a total and arrogant disregard for the actual evidence.
Or as put by Bob Ward;
Quote:Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, said in a statement, “The panel has carried out a thorough investigation of the evidence, and anybody who simply rejects these findings will show that they are motivated by prejudice and ideology rather than by scepticism and a desire to uncover the truth. I think those so-called sceptics and commentators in the media who have attempted to undermine the credibility of climate change science on the basis of the hacked e-mails now need to apologise for misleading the public about their significance.”
Here is the link to the blog page I copied this from, where you can also download a pdf of the Oxburgh Report, if you wish.
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/