At the outset of the Climatic Research Unit email controversy ( Climategate ) Zorita published his opinion on his personal wab site . This was republished by the '' Wall Street Journal '' on 5 December 2009 : Zorita set up the '' Klimazwiebel '' blog shortly afterwards , on 9 December 2009 . In a 2012 interview with Hans von Storch , Zorita said " Climategate did not show that the essentials of climate science were wrong or that anthropogenic climate change is the result of a conspiracy . It did show that some scientists were impelled to present a clean story , cleaner than it really is , and in doing so they went a bit too far . " He felt that in trying to present a clear message , scientists had lost public credibility , but independent groups checking work which appeared compromised found that the original conclusions were in order . In particular , the main surface temperature datasets which had been called into question were confirmed by the Muller et al. data analysis
Climatic Research Unit email controversy
Climatic Research Unit email controversy
Eduardo Zorita