London, Nov 23(ANI): A batch of e-mails and documents from the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research Unit has been released on the Internet just days before the United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa.
According to the BBC, there are over 5,000 e-mails, while other documents include working papers relating to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
A similar release just before the 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen had triggered the "ClimateGate" affair and prompted several inquiries in the UK and the US amid claims that scientists had exaggerated claims of a link between human actions and global warming.
The UEA says that it has "no evidence of a recent breach in our systems", and insists that the sheer number of documents makes it impossible to confirm that all are genuine.
"This appears to be a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change when that science has been vindicated by three separate independent inquiries and number of studies," the university said in a statement.
"As in 2009, extracts from emails have been taken completely out of context," it added. (ANI)
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