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[Chief]

Last week, over one-thousand e-mails, three-thousand documents, and data were
leaked from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, detailing
plots to artificially manipulate climate data, self-admission of manipulation,
suppression of evidence, evasion of the Freedom of Information Act,
and several other unethical, unscientific practices.

Sources:
WikiLeaks - Climatic Research Unit emails, data, models, 1996-2009
The Telegraph - Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of `Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
The Associated Press: Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
The Daily Mail - How climate-change scientists `dodged the sceptics'
FreedomWorks - Has the global warming lie and conspiracy been truly exposed?
Wikipedia - Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident

Defensive:
RealClimate: The CRU hack
ClimateGate: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are Crazed Conspiracy Theorists
Reuters - Hacked climate e-mails awkward, not game changer

Commentary:
CRU Emails `may' be open to interpretation, but commented code by the programmer tells the real story
Climate cuttings 33, a list of summaries of the e-mails
Climate change hoax exposed in CRU emails (2 videos)
War on Human Life: a Warning

Miscellany:
The Telegraph - Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up'
The Register: Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
abc13.com: Al Gore's `Inconvenient Truth'? -- $30,000 utility bill

Discuss.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

This is an affront to the Scientific Method.

[Duke 2.0]

 You can't argue with correct data.
 which is exactly why I always had issues with Climate Change.

[Leafsnail]

Advertising thread.  I'd suggest a lock on this one.

Anyway, these emails damage the credibility of the group of scientists who sent them, but doesn't undermine the vast majority of research into global warming.

[ToonyMan]

OH GOD THE DATA MAKES MY EARS BLUD

[Aqizzar]

Wow, what a shocker.  Scientists compiling decades of underfunded research on all human industry and activity and its possible effects on the whole damn ecosystem complain to each other that their results aren't rock-solid enough to sell to disinterested Luddite politicians.  Were you surprised?  I was surprised.

[Ampersand]

Escaped Lunatic is an accurate description.

[Zai]

Thanks, Chief.

[JoshuaFH]

What does this mean?

[Duke 2.0]

 It means Climate Change is all figuratively, literally and pun intended, a hot topic.

[kuro_suna]

I don't have time to go through all the articles on this, is their anything significant in all those emails or are they just using the fox news strategy of going through thousands of pages for three sentences they can take out of context.

[Wiles]

There was an interesting post on this from Quirks and Quarks recently (Science news from CBC)

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/quirks-blog/2009/11/climate_science_still_sound.html

[Eidalac]

What does this mean?

What this means is that researches in all fields will feel pressure to not communicate with each other, for fear that a hacker will find a copy and release it, possibly out of context and or edited, in order to use public opinion to stop the research.

From the small amount of data I've read, the bulk of what is being called into question involves a few e-mails in which the researchers are mean towards anti-climate change groups, and a few about masking uncertain data.

Neither of these issues shock me, given how nasty the anti-climate change side has been getting in recent years.


Whatever the case, the scientific method has been compromised.

[Cthulhu]

You can't mask data that doesn't support your opinion, even if you absolutely need it to push your agenda.  That is what we in the business call "really really bad"

[Itnetlolor]

I remember getting an email of this from my brother last week. Pretty interesting.

Of course, like many, didn't have the time to read through all of the articles.