Climate scientists react with relief

"Climate scientists on Wednesday reacted with relief to the results of a six-month inquiry into the “climategate” e-mails scandal, which found the scientists not guilty of wrongdoing....Julia Slingo, chief scientist at the UK’s Met Office...added that scientists at the Met Office, which operates one of the world’s leading centres of climate science, were already committed to opening up their data, workings and conclusions to the wider research community and the public. “We are making data and codes available and we have led an international proposal for a new global daily land surface temperature data set, which has the backing of the World Meteorological Organisation and has open access as its key element,” she said...."