'Climategate' Scientist Faces New Fraud Claims

Data behind some work of Jones work can't be verified
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 1, 2010 8:41 PM CST
'Climategate' Scientist Faces New Fraud Claims
A professor from the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, is at the center of the so-called climategate controversy.   (AP Photo)

The British scientist accused of ignoring data in order to make climate change look more dire—and whose leaked emails ignited the so-called “Climategate” scandal—faces new fraud claims tonight after a newspaper’s investigation found that some data was seriously flawed, and that documents backing up the research can’t be found. And, the Guardian finds, documents that were allegedly supposed to exonerate Professor Phil Jones don’t exist.
(More Climategate stories.)

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