It remains to be seen how the CRU hacker story will play out. If it's an inside job, or there's another data drop, then all bets are off. But in the meantime, I think it's a mistake for the aggrieved side to focus on tactics. I mean, why go there if the bigger picture remains intact? On that note, here's some interesting context from science historian Spencer Weart, via a recent interview he did with Andrew Freedman:
In blogs, talk radio and other new media, we are told that the warnings about future global warming issued by the national science academies, scientific societies, and governments of all the leading nations are not only mistaken, but based on a hoax, indeed a conspiracy that must involve thousands of respected researchers. Extraordinary and, frankly, weird. Climate scientists are naturally upset, exasperated, and sometimes goaded into intemperate responses... but that was already easy ...
