The University of East Anglia is to launch a review into the theft and online publication of hundreds of emails sent by scientists in its climate research unit, writes the Guardian (see previous post). However,  while some scientists calles for an investigation into the theft, others think this would play in the hands of the climate sceptics, some of whom were also calling for an investigation.  As Andy Atkins, Friends of the Earth's executive director, told the Guardian:

Calls for an inquiry look suspiciously like an attempt to cast doubt on the science of climate change ahead of crucial UN negotiations.

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A good versus evil battle of superhero kids: A short film explaining climate change has been released by Klimaforum09 ahead of the Copenhagen summit. A bit silly maybe, but then...

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It  was to be expected.  And yet. Scientific American just published an analysis on the consequences of failure in Copenhagen:

Climate experts, scientists and negotiators say that, absent international agreement, the children and grandchildren of those living today will negotiate a world where planetary geo-engineering is a part of daily life, sea-walls defend coastal cities, the world's poor are hammered by drought, floods and famine and our planet is heading toward conditions unseen for the last 100 million years.