"Climategate"

FactCheck by Jess Henig | Dec. 10, 2009 (Special Report)

Hacked e-mails show climate scientists in a bad light but don't change scientific consensus on global warming.

Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete fabrication of man-made global warming. We find that to be unfounded. Full Story »

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by Myrna E. Watanabe - Dec. 28, 2009

This is an excellent, well-referenced review of some of the content of the emails from climate researchers stolen by hackers. It explains how scientists communicate with each other--sometimes badly or nastily in emails. It reiterates the important facts: human influenced global climate change can be scientifically proven. It also notes that the media handling of the release of these emails has (wrongly) led to public skepticism of the science.