[maryz]

That Met Statement is dated November 24; the UK Times story Morrissey references is dated December 5. What date did the email/data story break?

In any case, I would suspect that none of the parties even tangentially involved are releasing statements not thoroughly vetted (if not actually written) by lawyers.

[Delacon]

The emails were hacked on Nov 19th. Given bureaucratic enertia, I’d say that Met Statement is pretty outdated. Interestingly Nov 24th was the same day that the CRU announced it would conduct an independent review of the matter. One week later directer of the CRU Phil Jones was forced to step down.