ClimateGate and the Global Warming Email Scandal: Front Page in the Washington Post

by the Left Coast Rebel

Saturday's print edtion of the WaPo along with Washingtonpost.com are headlining, "In emails, Science of Warming is Hot Debate."

In all honesty, the mere aknowledgement of this story in WaPo is surprising. Truthfully, I never thought that we would see that, but there you have it. Newsbusters has excerpts of the key points in the WaPo piece, here's one:

Now it has mushroomed into what is being called "Climate-gate," a scandal that has done what many slide shows and public-service ads could not: focus public attention on the science of a warming planet.

Except now, much of that attention is focused on the science's flaws. Leaked just before international climate talks begin in Copenhagen -- the culmination of years of work by scientists to raise alarms about greenhouse-gas emissions -- the e-mails have cast those scientists in a political light and given new energy to others who think the issue of climate change is all overblown.

The e-mails don't say that: They don't provide proof that human-caused climate change is a lie or a swindle.

But they do raise hard questions. In an effort to control what the public hears, did prominent scientists who link climate change to human behavior try to squelch a back-and-forth that is central to the scientific method? Is the science of global warming messier than they have admitted?

Via Memeorandum
Via Newsbusters
Via WaPo