One good result from the stolen CRU emails, is it has re-energized the debate and helped move Climate Change beyond partisan talking points and dogma and back to focusing on the actual science with its complexities and uncertainties:

Science never writes closed textbooks. It does not offer us a holy scripture, infallible and complete. This is especially the case with the science of climate, a complex system of enormous scale, at every turn influenced by human contingencies. Yes, science has clearly revealed that humans are influencing global climate and will continue to do so, but we don’t know the full scale of the risks involved, nor how rapidly they will evolve, nor indeed—with clear insight—the relative roles of all the forcing agents involved at different scales.

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If climategate leads to greater openness and transparency in climate science, and makes it less partisan, it will have done a good thing. It will enable science to function in the effective way it must do in public policy deliberations:

- Mike Hulme - Professor of Climate Change at the University of East Anglia
(some of the emails were his.)