Reasonable editorial about the ClimateChange controversy. This short article quotes some of the stolen emails to highlight key objections from climate skeptics. More importantly, it helps put them in perspective thoughtfully by pointing out that "they don’t change the underlying scientific facts about climate change." But I would have liked to see more details on some of the more important facts which are not affected by this incident.

The editorial spends a lot of ink on the hacker story, being over-generous in calling it a windfall, rather than a criminal invasion and subsequent selective quotes and extensive spin. However, they come to the conclusion that all the noise being echoed and amplified by the hackers backers should be ignored, and sound science pursued.

This editorial effectively states the position of those who are committed to the as yet unproved theory that human activity, specifically carbon loading of the atomosphere, is causing global warming. Some balance is provided, much to the credit of the NYT.