Private e-mails and documents were stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

The report said the director of the Climatic Research Unit did not attempt to hide evidence disputing the warming of Earth's atmosphere.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

The report said information requests by scientists not connected with the Climatic Research Unit, the C.R.U.,were continually rejected.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Keith Briffa, from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, said the tropical ocean regions were among the more reliable areas from which to infer large-scale temperature changes.

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In it, he noted that Monbiot had called for the resignation of Professor Phil Jones, head of the university's Climatic Research Unit, who featured prominently in the hacked emails.

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Climategate is media shorthand for the debate over the content of thousands of emails and documents that were released without authorization from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU).

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