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Hacked emails revive climate debate

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 02 December 2009

The leaked emails of one of the world's leading climate change academics have highlighted the debate over human involvement in climate change.

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A review is being carried out after claims that Professor Phil Jones, director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, and his colleagues manipulated scientific data on global warming.

The professor has said he stands by his data, but climate change sceptics around the world have seized on emails, leaked after a university server was hacked into, to argue that people are being misled.


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