As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution).
So begins the RealClimate post on this hack-heard-round-the-blogosphere. At the end, I’ll excerpt that post, which makes clear this is much ado about not bloody much.
UPDATE: The predictable FoxNews take is here (screen capture of their front page is above). At the end, I’ll post some truly amazing quotes from the anti-scientific side of the blogosphere, from Brad Johnson’s post, “ClimateGate: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are Crazed Conspiracy Theorists.”
Whatever smoke the anti-scientific disinformers are able to blow into people’s faces over this bunch of emails dating back over a decade, it doesn’t change the basic facts about human-caused warming:

- Very warm 2008 makes this the hottest decade in recorded history by far
- World’s Glaciers Shrink for 18th Year
- Skeptical Science explains how we know global warming is happening: It’s the oceans, stupid!

Figure: Time series of global mean heat storage (0–2000 m), measured in 108 Jm-2.
Here’s most of the rest of the post from the scientists at RealClimate :

The NY city hotel I stayed in last night, which I’ll call NYHOTEL, has paper cups where most hotels have glass. Next to the cups on the sink was a tiny piece of cardboard with this printed note:
If you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two claims. One is that the globe has been cooling lately, not warming, and the other is that America simply can’t afford any kind of cap-and-trade/carbon tax.

One of my guilty pleasures is the CBS crime show,
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