I saw this on a blog that I read. It's a summary from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change about the East Anglia emails:
www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/east-angli...-emails-12-07-09.pdf
The UN and the University of East Anglia will be investigating the matter. The initial summary, which you can read in the first two or three pages of the report, concludes: "Although a small percentage of the emails are impolite and some express animosity toward opponents, when placed into proper context they do not appear to reveal fraud or other scientific misconduct by Dr. Jones or his correspondents."
On page four it says: "Although there is no clear evidence of scientific fraud or misconduct at this early stage, if further investigation were to reveal that misconduct had occurred, the scientific consensus regarding human‐induced climate change, as stated by the IPCC, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and virtually every relevant scientific body (see listing below), is not likely to be affected. The data sets involved in the discussions have been reproduced independently by other scientists in other countries and yield similar conclusions. Moreover, the data sets discussed in the emails, while relevant, are not essential to our understanding of contemporary climate change."
This is consistent with my earlier impression, which is that the East Anglia controversy has been overblown. Even if the East Anglia scientists were really crooked (and there is no convincing evidence of that yet) there's a world of other data that continues to support the scientific consensus on climate change.
