The past week has seen the world of climate research embroiled in serious scandal (more than the usual war waging between climate change skeptics and climate change researchers) after the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia found a significant portion of e-mails had been hacked from the university’s webmail server. While it’s easy to wonder why anyone would want to go through the trouble to delve into the—many—personal e-mails of the climate researchers, the e-mails actually contained some controversial wording and plenty of fuel for anti-global warming advocates (who seem to have conveniently upped their efforts in the month leading up to Copenhagen).

At first glance, even a firm believer in the link between human action and global warming might feel that the e-mails indicate they’ve been led astray, but in the days since the climate e-mails controversy, many scientists and organizations have spoken out to assure the public that what’s really going on is a matter of anti-global warming activists trying to rework and cherry pick information to mislead in their own way. Click here to read more

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