Like most of what you read in the newspapers or watch on TV, the stories around the UEA email thefts are highly speculative and pretty much rubbish. The climate change-denier lobby is sufficiently deluded to encourage criminal acts in attempts to reveal some kind of cover-up.
All that has been revealed is that 'raw data' has been lost (which must be frustrating) and that academic terminology is easy to misinterpret.
Of course, the upshot is that the wasters of the planet have caused a lot of damage, maybe irreparable damage. Hopefully the Copenhagen summit will run its proper course and set realistic and binding limits on an international scale. At least then everybody will have to achieve a sensible lower-energy way of life, not just those who care.
All that has been revealed is that 'raw data' has been lost (which must be frustrating) and that academic terminology is easy to misinterpret.
Of course, the upshot is that the wasters of the planet have caused a lot of damage, maybe irreparable damage. Hopefully the Copenhagen summit will run its proper course and set realistic and binding limits on an international scale. At least then everybody will have to achieve a sensible lower-energy way of life, not just those who care.