Washington Post: The battle over the science of global warming has long been a street fight between mainstream researchers and skeptics. But never have the scientists received such a deep wound as when, in late November, a large trove of e-mails and documents stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia were released onto the Web. In the ensuing “Climategate” scandal, scientists were accused of withholding information, suppressing dissent, manipulating data and more. …