The global climate change skeptics like to focus on a single piece of information and beat it to death, while ignoring all of the other competing data that create the big picture.

This "scandal" fits the pattern perfectly - focussing on several phrases (out of context byt the way) in 60 Mb worth of emails dating back to 1996.

Some of the emails will be (and should be) embarrasing for the authors (e.g. crass comments following the death of a well-known climate change skeptic), but a few dozen words (among millions) from a single institution (among thousands) simply do not change our understanding of the physics.

The evidence for global climate is overwhelming even if we were to throw away everything coming out of CRU. But instead of throwing it all out, or simply believing the denialist scavengings of the emails, CRU has put them all in a searchable archive, so you can judge for yourself.

http://www.eastangliaemails.com/index.php

I would love to see the denialists (e.g. Heartland Institute) post all of their internal emails from the last 13 years. Wonder what we could scavenge from those!?!?