"Climategate" a farce of global proportions

Emails were stolen from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) last November. While thousands of emails were taken, only a handful provided fodder for those who reject the science underpinning climate change and muddied the waters for those who don't follow the issue closely. While this controversy stoked a lot of emotion, and high profile skeptics began ringing the death knell for climate change and clean energy policy, we are shown once again that "Climategate" and all its accompanying furor was in fact built on a house of cards.

I highly recommend this article from the Ecocentric blog hosted by Time. It provides some critical background and sets the record straight. Now let's move on and address the problem instead of pretending there isn't one.