Hacked private emails between climate change scientists at the University of East Anglia and their international colleagues that were released online caused a storm of controversy and triggered three separate inquiries.

Join our live debate in London to discuss what the emails do – and do not – reveal.

• Has the leak exposed problems with the science of global warming?
• Do the emails uncover deep problems with access to scientific data?
• Are there serious questions about how climate research is done?

The panel includes:

• Professor Bob Watson, chief scientific advisor, Defra, visiting professor at the University of East Anglia and former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
• Fred Pearce, environment journalist and author of The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming;
• Doug Keenan, blogger and independent researcher.

Plus further guests to be announced.

Chair: George Monbiot, Guardian comment writer

When: 7pm, Wednesday 14 July 2010

Where: Riba, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD

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• Fred Pearce will be signing copies of his book Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming at the debate. To order your copy in advance please visit guardianbooks.co.uk or call 0845 606 4232.