Your main leader on the upcoming climate-change meeting in Copenhagen opens with a sour foretaste of the event: “There will be oceans of planet-saving rhetoric, countless photographs of politicians wearing dark suits and serious faces, and, if things go according to plan, an agreement to cut emissions to avert a rise in temperature that might anyway have turned out to be marginal and self-correcting” (“Stopping Climate Change,” December 5, 2009). Judging from the last clause, the release of those electronic-mail documents stolen from the University of East Anglia a short while ago has come just in time for the meeting. Now the skeptics are triumphant. The general public is befuddled. And the politicians will thus do their best to sign as little as possible. Copenhagen is indeed most likely to be remembered for nothing more than oceans of planet-saving rhetoric and countless photographs of politicians wearing dark suits and serious faces. And you, too, will have contributed in a small way to the meeting’s debacle.