1. What is the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)?

2. What did computer hackers do to the Climatic Research Unit?

3. What information do the leaked documents provide?

4. What do skeptics of the theory that human actions are causing the earth's temperatures to rise say the CRU documents prove?

5. The CRU's director Phil Jones wrote in one email that, in compiling new data on climate statistics, that he utilized a technique used by a fellow scientist to "hide the decline" in recent global temperatures. He said he had "just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline [in global temperatures]."
a) How did Mr. Jones defend this apparent falsification of global temperatures?
b) What do you think of Mr. Jones' explanation?

6. a) Where is Copenhagen?
b) What is the purpose of the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen?
c) How might the information from the CRU documents affect the conference?