Gore says 'Climategate' emails taken out of context

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Gore says 'Climategate' emails taken out of context

(AFP) – 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Former US vice president turned environmental crusader Al Gore weighed in on "Climategate" Wednesday, saying the emails at the center of the row were being taken out of context.

"Well, they took a few phrases out of context. These are private e-mails, more than 10 years old, and they've tried to blow it up into something that it's really not," Gore said in an interview with CNN.

The emails, intercepted from scientists at Britain's University of East Anglia, a top center for climate research, have been seized upon by skeptics as evidence that the experts twisted data in order to dramatize global warming.

Some of the thousands of messages expressed frustration at the scientists' inability to explain what they described as a temporary slowdown in warming and discussed ways to counter the campaigns of climate naysayers.

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