There’s been a lot of buzz about this on the internet. I think some of the reporting overstates what these stolen emails reveal. They don’t show a coordinated conspiracy to lie about global warming. They do, however reveal many scientists’ bias against opposing views, as well as their pettiness.
In one email, Benjamin Santer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., wrote to the director of the climate-study center that he was “tempted to beat” up Mr. Michaels. Mr. Santer couldn’t be reached for comment Sunday.
In another, Phil Jones, the director of the East Anglia climate center, suggested to climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University that skeptics’ research was unwelcome: We “will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!” Neither man could be reached for comment Sunday.
(Read more from wsj.com)
This celebratory, told-you-so video by climate skeptics is probably premature, but it is funny: