Scoop: Week from hell for climate science

As New Scientist suggests, it is a time when climate scientists need to meet climate change sceptics head-on: "Researchers being paid from the public purse should not treat their detractors as enemies but make reasonable attempts to engage with them honestly, no matter how unpalatable their views."

If there's anything to be salvaged from climategate it is that two weeks out from the Copenhagen conference, the science underpinning the discussions that will take place is in the spotlight. It's perhaps good timing that one of the best, up-to-date summaries of the science of climate change landed this week amidst the firestorm of climategate.

[From an email tip] Several of the authors of a paper [The Copenhagen Diagnosis] to be presented in Copenhagen are not only mentioned in the hacked CRU files, but originated many of the emails.  

The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Authors

Mann, Michael
Michael E. Mann is a Professor in the Department of Meteorology at Penn State University, USA, Director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, and a Lead Author of the IPCC Third Assessment Report.