'Out of context'

At the time that the theft of the data was revealed climate sceptics picked up on the word "trick" in one e-mail from 1999 and talk of "hiding the decline".

Professor Jones said the e-mail was genuine but taken "completely out of context".

He released a copy of the actual e-email which reads: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."

Professor Jones said: "The first thing to point out is that this refers to one diagram（图解，图标） - not a scientific paper.

"The word 'trick' was used here colloquially（口语地，俗语地） as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous（荒谬的） to suggest that it refers to anything untoward（麻烦的，困难的）."

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