the truth will always out

A few days ago, the Hadley Climate Research Unit got its happy little butt hacked, and somewhere over 60MB of data was exported (and is available here, if you want it). The Research Unit has admitted to the hack, and while they will not confirm whether or not the information and communications contained within the 60MB of data is legitimate or not, other sources have indicated it probably is. As for the information itself, it shows a widespread, systemic, and intentional fraud on the part of the Hadley Climate Research Unit scientists as they attempted to hide information that poked holes in their theories, misrepresent/over-represent potentially-salutory information, and generally violate just about every form of research-related or scientific ethics there are out there in order to inflate the importance of the data supporting their own climate-change opinions.
Exciting, huh?
Well, apparently, not exciting enough to make it into many of the mainstream media outlets, and those sources that did deign to cover this fraud exposee almost exclusively focused on the admittedly-illegal activities of the hackers, with hardly a mention of the fraud perpetuated by the scientists. I wonder if the focuses of the articles, or the numbers of articles in general, would be the same if a similar event transpired involving scientists who are working to debunk anthropromorphic global warming…
For those of you left in the dark of a media blackout, however, there are three important take-aways from this event, blockquoted below:

First, the scientists discuss manipulating data to get their preferred results.

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Secondly, scientists on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication.

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Finally, the scientists worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process of the United Kingdom.

You will want to read the above-linked article in its entirety, but it can be summed down to this: the scientists lied about their data, the scientists lied about their science, and the scientists lied about their laws.
And yet, according to the media, these emails are nothing more than communications in which “prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.” Huh. I will have to remember that “blunt discussion” phrase if I ever happen to be involved in a multi-trillion-dollar scam…
Remember, boys and girls – never write something down if you do not want it publicized at some point in the future, because, eventually, it will be. I would have thought that “covering one’s tracks” went hand-in-hand with “multi-national fraud, ethical violations, and potentially illegal activities”… of course, I also would have thought that honest scientific research required honesty, integrity, a willingness to accept data that conflicts with your own personal opinions, and a host of other things that the researchers at the Hadley Climate Change Unit appear to lack; but, then, I do not have a PhD, so what do I know?