RedOrbit: In 2009, hacked emails from the University on East Anglias Climatic Research Unit allegedly showed misconduct by climate researchers a development dubbed climategate. Several months later, news reports surfaced that an error had been made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes fourth assessment report regarding the rate of ice melt in the Himalayas. While those skeptical about the existence of climate change seized on these reports as evidence of biased climate science, opinions...