The controversy of the Hadley Climate Research Unit has made clear that it is time for climactic science to clean house, and investigations should extend beyond the United Kingdom.

The University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit's e-mail account was hacked earlier this month, exposing communications among CRU faculty members and researchers that reveal their willingness to distort climate-change data.

Climate Research Unit e-mails suggest that its scientists have been suppressing and misstating data.

The institution of science has no place for hiding data, shaping data to conform to pre-existing beliefs,undermining the peer-review process, or any other of the shady activities that the Hadley Center Climate Research Unit scientists allegedly engaged in.

Since the beginning of the climate change story more than 20 years ago, it has been hard to sort out whether the IPCC represents the “best” science, or merely the findings most compatible with the politically driven climate policy agenda. Both sets of Climategate emails have lifted the lid on the insides of the process, and it isn’t pretty.

Climate science has become one of the most distrusted occupations; it is fast becoming known for reporting exaggerations and bending the truth.

Even before Climategate, the climate change hysteria was beginning to resemble a Broadway musical that had run too long, with sagging box office and declining enthusiasm from a dwindling audience.

The Climategate controversy calls into question the data on human-caused global warming, and it highlights the detrimental effects of politicized scientific research.