Newt Gingrich is jumping on the Climategate smear bandwagon now as well :

Newt Gingrich — whom numerous media figures have previously labeled the Republican Party’s “idea man” — recently posted an article on his website echoing other right-wing figures in advancing the dubious claims that the so-called “Climategate” emails stolen from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia indicate that climate scientists have attempted “to manipulate data sets in order to show warming trends” while trying to “suppress” research skeptical of global warming, and that the CRU “destroyed its original raw data” years ago. But Gingrich’s claims are based on outlandish distortions and misrepresentations of the contents of the stolen emails, as well as a misleading report on the CRU’s data, which greatly undermine his smears.

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