LONDON (AP) — A British university says it's going to investigate whether its scientists fudged data on global warming.
The question was raised after thousands of pieces of correspondence among some of the world's leading climate scientists were stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
They were leaked to the Internet. And skeptics of global warming said the correspondence showed that scientists have been conspiring to hide evidence that global warming wasn't as strong as had been believed.
The theft and publication of the e-mails has been politically explosive, just weeks before the U.N. summit on global warming.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have grilled government scientists on the matter. One of the lawmakers, James Sensenbrenner, said the e-mails show that the world needs to re-examine claims about global warming.
But Britain's climate change secretary today is calling the skeptics irresponsible and dangerous.
