How are they going to do this, they threw out all the data?
They will have to recollect all the samples again from scratch. This time it will all be scrutinized by an ever growing group of skeptics.
When I run a test at work that was found to contain possibly tainted data, I always purge the data in question and start from scratch. Tainted data leads to tainted results and false conclusions. That pretty much sums up global warming research.
They will get it from the same place they got all the other data. They’ll just make it up.
They got the data from somewhere--weather station readings, tree core samples taken by various scientists, ocean temperatures recorded by satellite and held by some university, etc. Those records have to be recollected and that's what takes time. And money. That's what makes the destruction of the data even more heinous. The CRU undoubtedly paid for a lot of the data the Mr. Jones et.al. so cavalierly tossed in the rubbish bin. At least the university could fire him for willful destruction of university property.
On the bright side, Jones is suspended until the investigation is over, so he's got at least three years to squirm.