While serious, I don't think the ramifications of this are greater than the leaked emails - more on that here: <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100022157/how-climategate-killed-peer-review/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100022157/...</a> (I suspect the words "peer review" will be treated with considerably greater skepticism in the future)<p>They can and will likely chalk this up to some administrative error, but the underlying contents of the leaked emails, charges of fraud of some of the most prominent authors of the IPCC reports is far more significant.  More from a (formerly?) strong supporter of the IPCC reports here: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/nov/25/monbiot-climate-leak-crisis-response" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/nov...</a>