Guardian Daily: Climate science under siege | World news | guardian.co.uk

[Audio] As the consensus on climate change comes under sustained attack following more revelations from leaked emails and a climbdown on melting glaciers from the UN climate agency we ask: can the trust in the science be restored and how solid is the consensus?

We hear from the Guardian's environment team who have worked on the story since it broke last year.

Climate emails cannot destroy proof [what proof?] that humans are warming the planet | Fred Pearce | Environment | The Guardian

Part of the problem is secrecy in science. Climatologist Judy Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who has been trying to make peace between her colleagues and the sceptics, says the various data sets connected to the famous "hockey stick" temperature graph and Phil Jones's thermometer data sets "stand out as lacking transparency". Science is too much of a closed shop, she says. Outsiders need to be let into the ivory towers for the good of science itself. "Einstein didn't start his career at Princeton, but rather at a post office." Bring on the bloggers. Maybe there's an Einstein among them.

The doors of the labs are being opened whether scientists like it or not.

Hacking into the mind of the CRU hacker | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown
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Early speculation that the release of the emails and documents came from a one-off hack also appear to be wrong. Digital forensic analysis shows that the zipped archive of emails and documents was not produced on a single date. Instead it was created by copying the files over a number of weeks, with bursts on 30 September 2009, 10 October and 16 November. On the last date a folder of computer analysis code by Osborn was added to the package.

The digital forensics on the files indicate that they were created on a computer set at some times four hours behind GMT, and at others five hours behind – plants the hacker on the eastern seaboard of Canada or the US.

The Press on Climate Change | Kiwiblog

What is interesting is that no one in the IPCC seems to have realised the damage done by the e-mails and the false claims. They keep repeating the mantra that it doesn’t undermine the basic linkage – and while they may be right scientifically, they are wrong politically.

These articles about the failings of the IPCC are not on obscure blogs or Page 23 of newspapers. They are appearing almost daily on front pages around the world. Even liberal newspapers such as the Guardian have devoted considerable space to the problems in the IPCC reports.

Business as normal will not work for the IPCC. Too much damage has occurred. There needs to be some resignations and some sort of announcement of additional fact checking if they want their next report to have influence.