Climategate: Climate Science, Or Pseudoscience?

Today we're catching up with the controversy surround the e-mails and other documentation that were exposed in what has become known in the blogosphere as Climategate, although we're going to take a different tack than the kind of sensational discussion that has taken place elsewhere. Or at least as much as we can given the nature of the scandal.

Instead, we're going to apply our guide to identifying whether a given field is a legitimate field of scientific study or if it the field in question qualifies as being "junk science" or a "pseudoscience" to the information that was revealed in the public exposure of the Climatic Research Unit's (CRU) previously shielded e-mails and data. We're going to go line by line through our guide to see if the conduct and practices of the scientists involved in the scandal qualifies as science, pseudoscience, or if no such determination can be made with the available evidence.