Prince Charles defends 'climategate' scientists - Telegraph

The Prince of Wales has come out in support of the British scientists embroiled in the "Climategate" saga, describing their treatment as "appalling".
Richard Alleyne
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During a speech at London's Science Museum to open a new £4.5 million Atmosphere gallery, the heir to the throne said "climate science has taken a battering of late".
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Prince Charles said: "I wanted to discuss with them the appalling treatment they had endured during the so-called Climategate row because, as they reminded me, the University of East Anglia is not a campaigning NGO, nor an industry lobby group.

"It is an academic institution working to understand precisely and dispassionately what is happening to our world; to separate the facts from the fiction and build the sum of human knowledge on the one issue that could very well balloon into the cause of our downfall."
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...the final review cleared the scientists of any dishonesty or exaggerating the extent of global warming.
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He has likened the failure to combat rising temperatures across the world to playing "Russian roulette with the future of our children".

The Prince said more and more people were listening to the "siren voices" of climate change sceptics who argued that the theory of man-made global warming was simply a "sinister attempt to undermine the capitalist system".