UPDATE: CEJ's Tom Yulsman has my favorite one-liner so far:
I'm not sure even Michael Crichton could have dreamed something like this up.
So this Hadley hacker affair will, as Keith Johnson at Environmental Scandal puts it, "spice things up" for a wee bit. It's too early to jump to any conclusions, so Roger Pielke Jr.'s headline question is apt: "Climate Conspiracy or Much Ado About Nothing?" For the moment, the histrionics will carry the day and maybe the weekend. One hardcore skeptic is already calling it
a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science.
Meanwhile, an overwrought Michael Tobis offers this:
It's a travesty that the fate of the world is being reduced to word games.
Please. I thought Freeman Dyson already held that fate in his hands. Actually, Michael, you really ought to wait to see if the story has legs, as they say in ...
