Unintentionally funny stuff from Washington Post warmist Andrew Freedman: To back up his claim that ClimateGate 2.0 was insignificant, he links to an analysis piece done the same day that the story broke

Top climate change stories of 2011 - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

3. “Climategate 2” falls flat

For the thousands of experts who study the climate, 2011 was something of a rebuilding year - a chance to regroup from the turbulence caused by the so-called “climategate” emails scandal. After multiple investigations cleared climate scientists of the most serious allegations of wrongdoing, more emails between a few top climate researchers were released, again purporting to show climate scientists doctoring scientific evidence and conspiring to keep out dissenting voices from peer-reviewed journals. This time, however, the damage to climate science’s street cred was minimal, as the media and the scientific community quickly found the emails to lack much evidence of anything scientifically significant.

[Here's the "quickly found" story that Freedman linked to just above--it's timestamped the same day as the Climategate 2.0 emails were released]

06:39 PM ET, 11/22/2011