As someone who is skeptical of the theory of anthropogenic global warming, I'm enjoying the news lately.
In case you haven't heard, a huge batch of private email correspondence among prominent pro-AGW scientists has been leaked to the Internet, and the contents of said correspondence do not put the scientists in the most favorable light. The emails seem to suggest that these powerhouses of global warming research were actively conspiring to conceal data, mislead the public, and shut down all criticism.
Leaking the emails would ordinarily be illegal, but given the public policy implications of AGW claims, this case may fall under the category of whistleblowing. In any event, the information is out there now, and it's not going away.
A few links of possible interest:
An amusing rundown of media reactions.
Some choice excerpts.
The blog post that broke the story.
A gargantuan comments thread that developed as the story began to unfold.
My favorite (sarcastic) comment from that thread:
Wait a minute! These e-mails and documents can’t be genuine. None of our models predicted that this information would be released.
Incidentally, I don't dispute that there has been a small rise in planetary temperatures since the nineteenth century, and that human action has played some role in it (not necessarily a major role). My skepticism is directed at notoriously unreliable computer models that pretend to predict the future, alarmist claims (such as Susan Blackmore's) of global apocalypse, dubious schemes like carbon credit swaps, and assertions that recent increases in temperatures are historically unprecedented.
There's been a lot of heat about global warming. Maybe it's time for cooler heads to prevail.