The Christian Science Monitor quotes Mann, in typically combative form:
Climate scientist Michael Mann blasted the release of new leaked emails and documents taken from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit as "truly pathetic" and a "shameless effort to manufacture a false controversy" on Tuesday
The Independent quotes Bob Ward as saying "move on nothing to see here".
The Washington Post
The climate skeptic blogosphere has been quick to cherry pick certain snippets from the emails they claim show dissension within the climate science ranks, perhaps to demonstrate scientists may express more doubt about their confidence in the science in private than they do in public…
New leak of hacked global warming scientist emails: A 'smoking gun' proving a conspiracy - or just hot air?
I have it from a very good source that it absolutely was a hack, not a leak by a "concerned" UEA scientist, as has been claimed in some circles.
Andrew Bolt at the Herald Sun notes well known consensus upholder Barrie Pittock writing to UEA to say that they need to make sure their results cannot be interpreted as unalarming:
I would be very concerned if the material comes out under WWF auspices in a way that can be interpreted as saying that “even a greenie group like WWF” thinks large areas of the world will have negligible climate change.
Times Higher Ed reckons a hacker group was behind the latest disclosures:
An anonymous group, calling itself “FOIA”, posted a link to the files earlier today on four well-known climate change websites popular with sceptics.
Nature has comment from UEA:
The university said in a statement that it had no evidence of a recent breach of its systems. The statement continues: "If genuine, (the sheer volume of material makes it impossible to confirm at present that they are all genuine) these emails have the appearance of having been held back after the theft of data and emails in 2009 to be released at a time designed to cause maximum disruption to the imminent international climate talks."