“We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we would have detected it,” says the Oxburgh report. “Rather we found a small group of dedicated if slightly disorganised researchers who were ill-prepared for being the focus of public attention” -An independent panel of 11 led by the University of Oxford’s Lord Oxburgh
Michael Mann in his own words on the stolen CRU emails