[Update: This press release came out a few weeks ago, so it's not exactly breaking news as I originally put in the title -- I removed that word. Interestingly to me, I didn't see any mention of it in the usual places I haunt, which means it's not getting the coverage it deserves. But my conclusions in this post are still solid; Climategate is a manufactured controversy, the mainstream media need to cover this, and denialists are still wrong.]
Score yet another one for reality: a panel of six scientists have investigated the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit -- the target of the so-called "climategate" -- and has cleared them of "any deliberate scientific malpractice". Moreover, they found that while the scientists at the CRU could have been better organized and could use some assistance from statistics professionals, their overall methodology is sound. In other words, the major ...
