The Peach Report

Last month, self-proclaimed climate skeptic Richard Muller reversed himself and released research confirming that the Earth is warming. That hasn’t deterred online skeptics from their excitement over what they’re calling “Climategate 2,” a new round of scientists’ emails released online. From The Guardian:

A fresh tranche of private emails exchanged between leading climate scientists throughout the last decade was released online on Tuesday.
The unauthorised publication is an apparent attempt to repeat the impact of a similar release of emails on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit in late 2009. The initial email dump was apparently timed to disrupt the Copenhagen climate talks. It prompted three official inquiries in the UK and two in the US into the working practices of climate scientists. Although these were critical of the scientists’ handling of Freedom of Information Act requests and lack of openness they did not find fault with the climate change science they had produced.

I haven’t read through the new emails yet, so I don’t know anything about the content, damning or otherwise. But if you’re reporting on this issue or just curious, Skeptical Science has essential background information on the 2009 email release and the resulting investigations. It’s well worth checking out.