Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming (illegal, state)

[Jadex]

Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming – Telegraph Blogs

[Nomander]

Originally Posted by Jadex

Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming – Telegraph Blogs

Title is a bit misleading unless I missed something in the updates.

It isn't a confirmation, in order for it to be so, the raw data and lists of stations used must be obtained from the CRU to validate this concern.

That is not to say that it is not likely, we have a lot of evidence that suggests such and a time line of issues and replication questions that suggest it to be true, so as Watts mentions:

Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations « Watts Up With That?

They specifically state that lack of measurement is not the cause. If they claim the full set of Russian data does NOT support global warming, imagine how different the bright red dot over Russia would look. Again the accusation is completely believable, yet is completely unverifiable because CRU has refused to release the data. This data and code release is the subject of illegal blocking of FOIA’s is one of the keys in the Climategate emials. We need to know the list of stations used and we must have copies of the raw data.

And that there is the problem. Yet how easy would it be for them to squash this inquiry and claim made by the Russians if they simply released it? So why not? They have nothing to hide... right?