Climategate Scientists Cleared, but Skepticism Remains

Last year, just before the UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen, a hacker got into one of the world's leading climate change research centers and released a thousand emails. A scandal followed over the content of the emails – researchers speaking scathingly about their critics and about how to keep opponents out of peer-reviewed studies. The center's integrity was challenged and an independent inquiry was launched. The results of that review have just been released. Bryan Walsh is a staff writer at Time magazine, where he focuses on the environment.