Some of the most fascinating, informed and (generally) civil discussions I've found have been in the comments to various posts (impressive themselves) at The Volokh Conspiracy (e.g. here). Yes, it's a law blog. But so much more.
But for (characteristically) rapier sharp analysis of the insidious propagandistic tricks underlying this scandal (yes, we're shocked! to find manipulation of the data!), there's unlikely to be a better source than Mere Rhetoric.
Go ahead. Check it out.In any case, what hasn't been unpacked is how the AGW crowd systematically undermined public debate by framing their media messages to provoke unjustifiable anxiety (a "certainty" issue), manipulating media institutions to untenably emphasize or deemphasize findings (a "what's going on" issue), and punishing scientists who strayed from the party line in media appearances. Climatologists could be model researchers and their shilling for prosperity-killing agreements and treaties would still be wildly inappropriate. That's not the deal we have with these people.
If these emails came from the other side, lefty magazines and academic journals would be screaming about the catastrophic erosion of contemporary democratic institutions. And they'd be right.
