Telegraph: An independent inquiry said the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia was “ill prepared for being the focus of public attention” when sceptics began to question their figures on climate change. As well as taking issue with the researchers’ record keeping, the panel of experts said better statistical methods should have been used to interpret the “messy” data on world temperatures. “We found a small group of dedicated if slightly disorganised researchers …