(CNN) -- I asked a knowledgeable environmentalist earlier this week: "How big a story is the CRU scandal in your community?" "The what?" "The e-mails hacked at the Climate Research Unit at [the British] East Anglia University?" "Ah." He smiled. "It says something that I didn't immediately recognize what you were talking about. I suppose on my side we'd take the same view that the Pentagon took of Abu Ghraib: a few bad apples on the night shift." Meanwhile, on the right, the story is the biggest scandal since the leak of the Pentagon Papers. Seemingly unperturbed by the CRU embarrassment, President Obama will shortly jet to Copenhagen to pledge reductions in U.S. carbon emissions. The Democratic majority in Congress continues to work on a cap-and-trade bill.
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David Frum says the global warming debate has been distorted by intellectual self-ghettoization
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How can we reach conclusions if we can't agree on rules of discussion, Frum says
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Frum says that in modern America, we choose our facts to fit our opinions
Private e-mails and documents allegedly from the servers at the @placeholder's Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned center on the study of climate change, are thought to have been leaked by hackers.