Andrew Watson Joins Sceptic Camp
BBC News - Harrabin's Notes: E-mail impact
Professor Andrew Watson, a long-term colleague of the researchers at the CRU, said the unit should have nothing to fear from an inquiry, as the CRU temperature data set at the heart of many of the e-mails is almost identical to the two other authoritative data sets, both in the US.
"The difference between science and other branches of life - like politics - is that we should be completely transparent about what we do," he said. "Everything should be open to question."
Quite, that's all many of us having been saying, what took you so long to say it?