[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 Given bureaucratic enertia, I’d say that Met Statement is pretty outdated.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.

[mporter345]

The WaPo Credo:

[Yo-Yo]

My point, however, is this is the newest press release on the Met Office website. There is no press release about recreating the CRU's database from the original country by country records at all.

So wherever the Guardian got the quote, it wasn't an official Met Office press release.