British Seek Probe into Climate Data E-mails

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:04 PM

By: Dave Eberhart

Former Chancellor Lord Lawson has called for a probe into charges that top climate change scientists manipulated data to bolster the case for man-made global warming, according to a report in the U.K.’s Telegraph.

This week, Lord Lawson launched a global warming think tank, which will include on its board a former senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister and a former deputy chairman of Barclays.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation, which is being launched in anticipation of the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen, will have Lord Donoghue, who advised former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and Barclays’ Sir Martin Jacomb included on its board.

Lawson, who was chancellor between 1983 and 1989, said the independent think tank is “deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated.â€