S. I've added Ben Santer, Tim Barnett, Ed Cook, Keith Briffa, Malcolm Hughes, Ray Bradley and Phil Jones to your mailing list.

WSJ: Climate Emails: Science and Candor

Keith Briffa, from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, said the tropical ocean regions were among the more reliable areas from which to infer large-scale temperature changes.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | World 'warmest for 12,000 years'

"I tried hard to balance the needs of the science with the IPCC, which were not always the same, " wrote East Anglia climatologist Keith Briffa to Penn State's Michael Mann in April 2007.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: A Climate Absolution?