Guardian: It was, by many accounts, the worst academic outrage of modern times. A host of emails, illegally obtained from the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, “revealed” that researchers were manipulating data about global warming and were guilty of perpetrating “the worst scientific scandal of a generation”. At least that is how many writers reacted to the news of the leaking of emails between unit leader Phil Jones and fellow researchers. Last week, however, they …