[In case you missed it: The note that accompanied the CRU data]

We [plural] feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.

We hereby release a random selection [suggesting that "they" might not have released everything that they have?] of correspondence, code, and documents.
Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it.

Breaking: Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong – press conference | Australian Climate Madness

Listen here (didn’t catch the start – apologies).

What the Global Warming Emails Reveal - WSJ.com

Some of those mentioned in the emails have responded to our requests for comment by saying they must first chat with their lawyers. Others have offered legal threats and personal invective. Still others have said nothing at all. Those who have responded have insisted that the emails reveal nothing more than trivial data discrepancies and procedural debates.

Yet all of these nonresponses manage to underscore what may be the most revealing truth: That these scientists feel the public doesn't have a right to know the basis for their climate-change predictions, even as their governments prepare staggeringly expensive legislation in response to them.
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However, we do now have hundreds of emails that give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics. In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. Congress and other investigative bodies.

Global warming misdirection causes resource misallocation: Tom Fuller

The fanatic determination of some scientists, called The Team, to keep a catastrophic scenario of global warming before the public eye and on the political agenda involved a lot of chicanery. They cut their data series to obscure the fact that global warming slowed after 1998. They tried to cheat the peer review process, perhaps even to the extent of having an unsympathetic journal editor replaced. They deleted emails, told others to delete emails and threatened to delete data files--data files which have since disappeared.
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A well-financed campaign, slickly produced and artfully marketed, has attempted to influence world policy on environmental issues. Global warming activists like to make the claim that that campaign was run by skeptics financed by big oil against measures to curb global warming. But that is false. The big money campaign, financed by NGOs and big energy companies like General Electric, spent 100 times as much money trying to convince us all that the scientists who were hiding and changing data, playing pathetic political games and hobnobbing with the great and the good on their junkets to climate conferences around the world, were rock solid with the science and dead on with their predictions of disaster.

But if their science is as solid as their ethics, it may prove to be a house of cards.