Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics Washington Post
While few U.S. politicians sweat to question whether humans are changing the world's climate -- nearly three years ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Ambiance Change concluded the evidence was unequivocal -- public debate persists. And the newly disclosed confidential exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual encircle that appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its enemies.
In one e-mail, the center's director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann and questions whether the profession of academics that question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC communiqu, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.
"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report," Jones writes. "Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the coequal-review literature is!"
