In November 2009, The Daily Telegraph blogger James Delingpole credited Bishop Hill with reporting the British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs funding of the Climate Outreach and Information Network charity in the amount of £700,000 over two years.
[9] Also in February 2010, Philip Campbell, the editor-in-chief of Nature, resigned from Sir Muir Russell's Independent Climate Change Email Review after Bishop Hill and Channel 4 News drew attention to an interview Campbell had given in 2009 to China Radio International, in which he said there was no evidence the scientists had engaged in a coverup.
Montford gave a brief outline of the history of the "hockey stick graph" of global temperatures for the last 1000 years, and argued that more recent research had failed to validate the original studies which appeared in Nature.
The book received a number of positive reviews from those who shared his opinions, including those of Matt Ridley in Prospect and Christopher Booker in The Daily Telegraph.
[14] Montford wrote in Times Higher Education that the email conversations at the heart of Climategate "suggest a campaign to nobble journals, marginalise climate-change sceptics and withhold data from other researchers.
"[15] He was interviewed in April 2010 by Dennis Prager, an American radio talk show host,[16] and during the same month participated in a live web-debate hosted by The Times; the debate also featured Times environment editor Ben Webster and Bob Ward of the London School of Economics's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
"[18] In July 2010, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a British climate change think tank,[19] hired Montford to lead an inquiry into the three British investigations into the Climatic Research Unit email controversy[20] Montford's report, The Climategate Inquiries, was published in September 2010.