East Anglia Scientists Cleared in Probe
British lawmakers say climate scientists at the University of East Anglia probably held back some information, but never manipulated climate data on global warming.
The conclusions come from the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee in the the first government investigation into e-mails leaked from the university's Climatic Research Unit.
The release of the e-mails last November -- two weeks before the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen -- unleashed charges from skeptics that director Phil Jones and his team tampered with data to exaggerate the effects of global warming.
But the 14-member parliamentary panel concludes "the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact."
The report says nothing in the e-mails or the ensuing controversy challenged scientific consensus on global warming or human influence on it.
Two more government investigations are pending.
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