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earth
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conservation
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# Climate change emails: plot or damp squib?
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## The theft of documents and emails from the Climatic Studies Unit at the
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University of East Anglia has reheated the debate about the scientific basis
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for man-made global warming.
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![Smoke billows from a factory on the outskirts of Shenyang, northeast
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China][1]
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Smoke billows from a factory on the outskirts of Shenyang, northeast China
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Photo: REUTERS
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[![Mattthew Moore][2]][3]
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By [Matthew Moore][4] 11:25AM GMT 24 Nov 2009
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[Comments][5]
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Climate change sceptics have seized on the combative, conspiratorial tone of
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some the correspondence as **[evidence of a plot among academics][6]** to mask
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the truth about global temperature changes.
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Even George Monbiot, the leading environmentalist, has **[admitted to being
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"dismayed and deeply shaken"][7] **by some of the emails, particularly those
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which indicate a cover-up to prevent records being released under Freedom of
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Information laws.
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But the scientific establishment remains united in the view that the documents
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reveal no smoking gun to manipulate data, and point out that the figures
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produced by the unit tally with two other major international studies.
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What is your own interpretation of **[the email exchanges][8]**?
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Do they show an understandable defensiveness on the part of leading scientists
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faced with ill-informed challenges from climate change nay-sayers, or
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something more worrying?
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* Share: [Share][9] [ ][11] [ ][12]
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/conservation/6642790/Climate-
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change-emails-plot-or-damp-squib.html
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Telegraph
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## [Conservation][14]
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* ### [News »][15]
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* ### [UK News »][16]
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* ### [Debates »][17]
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* ### [Earth »][18]
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* ### [Earth Debates »][19]
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In earth
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[![Pinocchio frog, ET salamander, Yoda bat and dinospider: species near
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extinction][20] ][21]
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### [Species near extinction][21]
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[![Gorillas Living on the Edge: photographs by Andy Rouse][22] ][23]
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### [Gorillas Living on the Edge][23]
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[![Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo][24] ][25]
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### [Caring for orphaned apes][25]
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[![Hunting, shooting and fishing with Vladimir Putin, Russia's man of
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action][26] ][27]
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### [In pictures: Russia's man of action][27]
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[![Wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein runs four marathons with a tiger on
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his back][28] ][29]
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### [Running with a tiger][29]
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[What are these?][10]
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Share:
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* [ ][9]
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* [ ][11]
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* [ ][12]
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* [Tweet][13]
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* Advertisement
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