Quick Fact: Fox News' Scott claims hacked emails "suggest some scientists manipulate data on global warming"

SUMMARY: On Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott stated that climate scientists' emails that were apparently stolen by hackers from the UK's Climate Research Unit (CRU) suggest that "some scientists manipulate data on global warming." Scott then quoted an email sent by Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, which stated: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline"; however, the email Scott quoted has been cited by RealClimate.org as "[o]ne example" of "instances of cherry-picked and poorly-worded 'gotcha' phrases [being] pulled out of context."

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