This is beginning to smell like an inside job. Somebody within CRU leaked those emails deliberately after getting their wrist slapped for trying to come forth with contrary research. If it had been hacked from the outside they’d have found out by now.
Oil companies got nothing to do with it. They sell every barrel of oil they produce and, if anything, AGW will wind up making them more money by shooting the prices sky high as they limit production (and their costs) in response to capandtrade.
These “scientists” manipulated the data, but that’s ok, everybody does. But their high-fiving the death of a skeptic and openly supressing contrary views is devastating to their case. If they deleted files after an FOI request had been received in this country they’d be doing a perp walk.