The right-leaning Drudge Report made it a habit in November and December to trumpet any and all headlines relating to the “Climategate” controversy — the story involving hacked emails attacking critics of global warming, which found their way onto the Internet. Those emails raised suspicions among global warming deniers of a conspiracy to hide or destroy climate data that would help make their case. A House of Commons inquiry cleared Jones of any possible wrongdoing, but a day later, that headline was nowhere to be found on the Drudge Report.
