Eduardo Zorita

Zorita received his Ph.D. in solid state physics at the University of Zaragoza in 1988, and then held a postdoctoral appointment at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,[2] Hamburg.

[3] At the outset of the Climatic Research Unit email controversy (Climategate) Zorita published his opinion on his personal web site.

This was republished by The Wall Street Journal on 5 December 2009:[4] I may confirm what has been written in other places: research in some areas of climate science has been and is full of machination, conspiracies, and collusion, as any reader can interpret from the CRU-files.

But I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere—and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now—editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations, even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed.

He felt that in trying to present a clear message, scientists had lost public credibility, but independent groups checking work which appeared compromised found that the original conclusions were in order.