Ugly stories among researchers supporting the global warming hypothesis

A friend sent me recently information about some recent leaks of information from researchers heavily involved in work on global warming. This has been reported in major media, such as The Washington Post or The New York Times.

In very short, it seems that private communications between some of the main heads at the Climate Research Unit, from the British University of East Anglia, have been published, evidencing ugly strategies to support their views (which consider global warming a fact), in contraposition with those of global warming naysayers. Apparently, these files are flying around the net in an archive entitled "FOI2009.zip".

I don't really know what to think about it; there are loads of noise around this story in conservative media, which are obviously using it to deny global warming. And it is obvious there are industrial interests to deny global warming, so that many big companies can continue making processes which involve the release of CO2 to the atmosphere.

On the other hand, if these reports are accurate, I can't accept the manipulation of cientific information, on whatever grounds. So even if I am honeslty convinced that global warming is a real issue, tricks and lies to support the global warming are completely unacceptable, no matter how idealist would be the goal.

I will try to follow this story in order to get further information; but at this time I admit I am heavily disappointed with the behaviour of the researchers mentioned above.

Update: even the scientific journal Nature (the most important among multidisciplinary journals) is reporting about this story in tomorrow's issue, although their explanations don't quite fit with the "tricking" tone reported in conservative media. Clearly it is necessary to digg into the dirt in order to disclose what is actually happening there.