Email scandal may be turning against climate change deniers

The UK's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, told the Guardian that "the approach of the climate saboteurs is to misuse data and mislead people. The sceptics are playing politics with science in a dangerous and deceitful manner. There is no easy way out of tackling climate change despite what they would have us believe. The evidence is clear and the time we have to act is short. To abandon this process now would lead to misery and catastrophe for millions."
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While climate change deniers have been in high gear since the emails appeared—for example US Rep. James Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin, called the emails evidence of "scientific fascism"—the stolen emails may be backfiring on them simply by allowing a rare opportunity for climatologists to seize media attention in order to explain and defend the evidence of climate change.

Public trust in climate science hit by 'Climategate' - The Irish Times - Mon, Dec 07, 2009

OPINION: The climate change conference begins under a cloud of suspicion following leaked e-mails suggesting global warming evidence has been fabricated, writes RICHARD TOL
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From a policy perspective, Climategate is a disaster. Many people will only ever have seen a graph of the temperature going up in tandem with the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and think that this constitutes the whole of the “scientific proof” that warming is real and man-made. They now know that the temperature record was constructed by someone who believes that climate change is real and disastrous but would rather destroy his data than let them be checked by an outsider.

Notes from Copenhagen: A Bit of Warmth Amidst the Cold

It’s hard not to feel some sense of warmth and companionship after waiting in hour-long lines in Copenhagen’s freezing cold weather (6 degrees C, a little above zero) to get a badge to attend the summit.
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I myself, arrived Saturday afternoon and took the un-climate friendly approach of taking the 12+ hour flight from San Francisco (via Frankfurt).
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The car traffic on the highway from the airport to the city was jammed for about 45 minutes when I landed, causing my driver (and longtime friend and Copenhagen resident) to be aghast.