The scientific misconduct charges against key Climate Research Unit (CRU) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change participants are serious.

FORBES: Michael Mann And The ClimateGate Whitewash, Part II

Forget that even the director of the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit, Dr. Phil Jones, a principal ClimateGate figure, admitted that despite higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995.

FORBES: He's Baaack!: A Hot New Media Blast From Al Gore

They also contend that data selection has been biased -- a charge which gained credence during the so-called "Climategate" scandal in 2009, when thousands of private emails from the UK's University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) were published on the Internet.

CNN: New climate study deals blow to skeptics

The Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England released almost all of the meteorological raw data it had from gathered from national meteorological services and grouped into a widely contested global land-temperature dataset, commonly known as CRUTEM.

FORBES: Climategate Researchers Release Long-Sought Raw Data on Global Temperatures

In November, shortly before the Copenhagen climate summit, a stash of e-mails from and to various researchers at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia somehow found its way onto the web.

ECONOMIST: Climate science