Theleakedemailsfrom the CRUreveal that the formerdirectorof the unit, Tom Wigley, harboured gravedoubtsabout the cover-up of the shortcomings in JonesandWang's work.
They also contend that data selection has been biased -- a charge which gained credence during the so-called "Climategate" scandal in 2009, when thousands of private emails from the UK's University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) were published on the Internet.