Copy-paste from the independent Political Fact Checking website.
“Climategate”
Hacked e-mails show climate scientists in a bad light but don’t change scientific consensus on global warming.
December 10, 2009
Corrected: Dec. 22, 2009
Summary
In late November 2009, more than 1,000 e-mails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia were stolen and made public by an as-yet-unnamed hacker. Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete fabrication of man-made global warming. We find that to be unfounded: