In case you missed it, some hackers recently broke into the server at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (THE leading British institute on climate change research) and then posted hundreds of private e-mails, and other papers online. The e-mails date back some 13 years, and afford a rare glimpse into the inner workings of scientific publishing and the peer-review process. Some of it gets quite nasty and personal towards climate skeptics and other researchers, and some of it suggests improper data manipulation to make global warming more convincing.

A recent article in the New York Times discusses the continuing fallout of shining some rough light onto the darker side of climate research.

Skeptics have been making the case for some time that there’s something amiss in the climate change debate. At the heart of it is the failure of a few leading scientists to maintain scientific integrity above all other considerations. There is something peculiar about climate change that makes some of us want/need to believe in something  despite contrary evidence or even lack of evidence.  That’s not science. It’s religion.

And thus certain leading climate scientists are finding themselves the butt of a growing body of climate change humor. So it goes.

Tags: bad science, climate change, global warming, humor, skeptics