New leak of hacked global warming scientist emails: A 'smoking gun' proving a conspiracy - or just hot air?
A new batch of ‘Climategate’ emails last night appeared to implicate a government official in the furore over global warming data.
More than 5,000 documents were published online purporting to be the correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change.
One message appeared to show a member of staff at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) telling colleagues working on climate science to give the government a ‘strong message’. ‘Humphrey’, said to work at Defra, writes: ‘I cannot overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a message that the government can give on climate change to help them tell their story.
