'Climategate' scientists were 'unhelpful' and not open about their studies, finds review | Mail Online

Scientists involved in the 'Climategate' email affair were 'unhelpful' and not sufficiently open about their studies, an independent review said today.
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Today's review found that the graph referred to in this now infamous email from the centre's head, Professor Phil Jones, was 'misleading' because it did not make plain what the scientists had done.

The graph which showed global temperature rises, and which was used in a report published in 1999 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), did not show temperature data from tree-rings once they diverged from actual measurements in the 1960s, falling while real temperatures rose.

The review said it was not misleading to omit part of the tree ring temperature series but the process should have been made plain in the graph, caption or text.