Update on that article in the daily mail: Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data

...the significance of Dr Bates' concerns about the archiving procedures had been misrepresented in the article, and the newspaper had taken no steps to establish the veracity of Dr Bates' claims. World leaders had not been 'duped', as the headline said, and there was no 'irrefutable evidence' that the paper was based on 'misleading, unverified data', as the article had claimed....

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/16/daily-mail-retracts-global-war.html