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Skeptics of global warming, who have long considered climate change a fraud, refer to the incident as "Climategate," with obvious intimations of scandal and cover-up. Advocates of action on warming call it "Swifthack," a reference to the 2004 character attacks on presidential candidate Senator John Kerry by the group then known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - in other words, an invented scandal propagated by conservatives and the media that does nothing to change the scientific case for climate change. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
Many skeptics argue that the case for man-made global warming has been essentially undone, and that before the world goes any further in considering action to control greenhouse-gas emissions, all scientific evidence for warming must be reevaluated. Jones' e-mail about Mann's "trick" appears to indicate that climate researchers have been actively manipulating scientific data to better fit their models on climate change, while other e-mails seemingly confirm what skeptics had long suspected - that the globe in recent years wasn't warming as fast as theories on climate change had assumed. Most of all, the tone...
Despite the e-mail controversy, however, momentum on climate-change action is still building. Environmentalists are feeling increasingly hopeful that the Copenhagen summit could produce concrete action on emissions cuts, with U.S. President Barack Obama changing his schedule to arrive on the final day of negotiations. "The clock has ticked down to zero," said the U.N.'s climate chief Yvo de Boer on the first day of the talks. "After two years of negotiation, the time has come to deliver." There's nothing invented about that urgency...
...this honorable tale of war and woe; Brothers finished third with $9.7 million. Three slots further down, the heist film Armored swiped $6.6 million, or less than a sixth of the amount the guys in the movie are stealing. That's pretty feeble for the week's only new action film, whose low-wattage cast - Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno - assured that Armored would land in the "DVD, if at all" section of moviegoers' priorities. Barely making the top 10, with a $4 million take, was the Robert De Niro drama Everybody's Fine, a kind of weepie-genre...
Junior sabre squad member Yunsoo Kim was one of the fencers who took advantage of her opportunity to see action. Kim went 3-0 at the meet...