UN to Investigate ClimateGate

I don't expect a lot to come out of this:

The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate official said Friday.

E-mails stolen from the climate unit at the University of East Anglia appeared to show some of world's leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work. Those who deny the influence of man-made climate change have seized on the correspondence to argue that scientists have been conspiring to hide evidence about global warming.

In an interview with BBC radio, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, said the issue raised by the e-mails was serious and said "we will look into it in detail,"

"We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it," he said. "We certainly don't want to brush anything under the carpet."

Anyone who thinks the UN is going to give up their quest for global power through climate regulation is kidding themselves, but at least this effort, weak as it will probably be, is more than what Democrats want to do. Sen. Barbara "Dumb-as-a-Box-of-Rocks" Boxer thinks the only investigation required is of the hackers, and not the content of the emails.