The devil's in the details.
I've got my fingers crossed nonetheless.
It may be false hope, but I keep going back to a quote from an AP story on 11/24:
Trenberth, a well-respected atmospheric scientist, said it did not appear that all the documents stolen from the university had been distributed on the Internet by the hackers.
This, of course, refers to Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, who is in the thick of the leaked CRU emails.
Are there more? Are UEA, NCAR and the IPCC running scared? One can only hope.