No, the initial study has been thoroughly debunked.Then my reply to you is "so what?" So what if it came out of the UK. Climate Change is still contentious BTW so it's rich to say it's been debunked at this stage.
Where a dumb theory comes from is irrelevant. I could list off the top of my head at least five examples of junk science coming out of the US. Does that make all other science from the US irrelevant? I think we can quite comfortably say it doesn't.
The cherry picked locations to get the results they wanted (leaked e-mails proved that).
You can hang your hat on follow-up research, but the initial study isn't worth a damn.