Prof Edward Acton was speaking in front of the Science and Technology Committee on 27 October 2010 along with MuirRussell who wrote the independent report into the so-called "Climategate" affairs.
Which makes it all the more unfortunate that last week's "Independent Climate Change Email Review, " commissioned and funded by the University of East Anglia and chaired by MuirRussell, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, amounts to a 160-page evasion of the real issues.