U.S.News - Hacked E-mails Give Inhofe Fuel for Climate Change Debate

It seems that even the educated will rally behind a questionable source when faced with something they'd rather not believe. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma (Republican of course) has been pushing for a complete investigation regarding these emails. Emails that were illegally obtained and contain no reliable information. Thankfully the news isn't all bad, there seem to be some efforts moving forward that may eventually place a bipartisan climate change bill before the senate.

A slew of hacked E-mail snippets are rolling around the Internet. Posted earlier this month, the E-mails were swiped from a server at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and contain exchanges between several top climate scientists discussing, among other things, how to make their data appear more impressive for publication. Not surprisingly, climate change skeptics, ever on the lookout for a good story, are holding up the E-mails as support for their claims that climate science is being cooked.

This controversy is growing, as one might expect. Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, a longtime global warming skeptic and the top Republican on the Senate Environment Committee, is pushing for a full-blown investigation and has publicly said the E-mails should be a cautionary note as world leaders prepare to gather in Copenhagen next month for climate talks. Inhofe's supporters are now happily predicting that the controversy will also hurt efforts in the United States to pass a bill capping emissions from greenhouse gases, a major priority for top Democrats.

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