Shawn Lawrence Otto | Climategate 2.0? Pay no attention to the energy industry behind the curtain

A new batch of nearly 230,000 illegally hacked emails is up online in the same old places the last batch went up in November of 2009. It seems like old times. Jeff Id, the Air Vent blogger, has a batch up again, as do other climate deniers.

What's most remarkable is that the emails are so - well, normal.
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Because multiple independent lines of data accumulated by thousands of researchers over the last fifty years all point in the same direction and even some leading climate skeptics are now admitting that and reversing their previous positions.

That's not going to change no matter what the random scientist happens to say in the odd personal email.

Memo To Media: Research First, Then Report On Climate Emails | Media Matters for America

The question is: will mainstream media outlets allow themselves to be made part of a campaign to distract the public from the big picture on climate change? Or will they fulfill their responsibilities as journalists? Looks like we'll find out if they've learned their lesson to
research first, then report.

Climategate 2.0: Have Journalists Learned Their Lesson? | ThinkProgress

There have been nine independent investigations of the allegations made based on the stolen emails of scientific fraud and wrongdoing, and all of them cleared the scientists.

Been There. Done That. Got the (delta) T. Climate Hackers try again. « Climate Denial Crock of the Week

“While Texas experiences record droughts that cost $9 billion and while the evidence of climate change becomes more clear, the denialists quit discussing the science.  Instead, billionaire oil tycoons continue their personal attacks against scientists. “