Climategate Emails Reveal Lies and Deception

Some of the leaked emails included details of Freedom of Information requests he had submitted.

After receiving Mr Holland's request, a message sent on May 28, 2008 from one academic to another said: 'Oh MAN! Will this crap never end?'

Mr Holland, a grandfather from Northampton who graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from London University in 1966, has complained to the Information Commissioner's Office.

He said: 'It's like David versus Goliath. Thanks to these leaked emails a lot of little people can begin to make some impact on this monolithic entity that is the climate change lobby.'

The row - dubbed Climategate - was triggered when a hacker stole hundreds of emails sent and received by Prof Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit.
Global warming sceptics seized on the emails as proof that climate scientists are holding back information, manipulating figures and blocking opposition.

Even environmentalists say they reveal a culture of complacency and arrogance.
In one dated last month, a top American climatologist admitted it was a 'travesty' that scientists could not account for the lack of global warming in recent years.
In another, British researchers dismissed the work of scientists challenging the global warming orthodoxy as 'crap'.

In one of the most damning Prof Jones appeared to respond to news of the death of climate sceptic John Daly with the words 'in an odd way this is cheering news!'

Editor's note: John Daly died from a sudden heart attack after a radio show interview.

No matter how long you live on this planet, the shock of sudden death never seems to lose its potency. One moment someone is a vital presence that you are inclined to take for granted, the next they are gone. Daly was the epitome of a new phenomenon of the post-scientific age, a lone scholar with all the traditions of meticulous attention to detail and truth that the word implies, with limited means upholding the principles of the scientific method in the face of adversaries with vast resources. He usually won, but the establishment media ensured that the world never got to hear of it. He was the eternal small boy gleefully pointing out that the emperor had no clothes.