Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University...is a whole lotta bogus

Since November a few names have been floating around the Internet: CRU (Climate Research Unit), University of East Anglia,and Phil Jones. These are all names involved in the recent Climategate scandal. For years the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia has been one of the major scientific bodies providing the data and research supporting global warming. Phil Jones headed CRU at the University of East Anglia. In November of 2009, CRU, UEA, and Phil Jones were involved in a rather nasty scandal referred to as "Climategate". In November of 2009, a series of emails hit the internet; contained in these emails were admissions by scientists, including Phil Jones, of the inaccuracies in data sets supporting the theory of global warming.
I will not post the emails on this blog, but instead I will provide links to sources that present the evidence in an orderly and accurate fashion.
James Delingpole does a particularly good job of explaining the emails and the blogs Watts Up With That provides the unaltered email sets in their entirety. Another blog, Climate Audit, maintained by global warming sceptic scientist Steve McIntyre, gives extensive scientific analysis of the inaccuracies and inconsistencies of pro-global warming data. On "Watts Up With That" there are many good articles and videos, one video "Understanding Climategate: Who's Who- a video" provides a thorough and easy-to follow slide show explaining the various people involved in Climategate.