CLIMATEGATE!   Over a thousand sensitive emails and many important data files from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK were made available on the internet. The emails show that the CRU scientists manipulated data to support the global warming agenda of the IPCC. The CRU provides paleo-climate data and a temperature index used by the IPCC and climate scientists.

*** Recent analysis suggests the files were leaked, not hacked. See here.***

The Telegraph UK reports that the emails from some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory suggest:

"Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more."

The climate establishment set up a number of inquiries to investigate the consequences of the email scandal. Dr. Ross McKitrick produced an analysis of the five climategate inquiries here.

See "Climategate: the Final Nail in the Coffin of 'AGW'?" from the Telegraph here.

See Climate Depot for numerous Climategate articles and analysis here.

See "CRU has Apparently been Hacked Hundreds of Files Released" from Watts Up With That here.

See "Warmist conspiracy exposed?" from Heraldsun here.

See   "Leaked FOIA Files 62 mb of Gold" from The Air Vent here.

See "Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline" from American Thinker here.

See "CLIMATEGATE: Caught Green-Handed!" by Lord Christopher Monckton here.

See "The Death Blow to Climate Science" by   Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball here.

See Rex Murphy video here.  

See BBC's CRU programming error video here.

See "Why Climategate is so Distressing to Scientists" by John P. Costella here.

See "THE CLIMATEGATE EMAILS" by John P. Costella  here.

See a listing of Climategate articles here.  

See extensive excerpts from and links to the most scandalous Climategate emails here.  

See full timeline of ClimateGate, laying out the analysis, graphs, emails and history of the scandal here.

Climategate has spun a series of related scandals, many related to false claims in the IPCC's 2007 Fourth Assessment Report.  

See here for a list of 19 scandals.