The implications of the leaked emails from University of East Anglia CRU (Climatic Research Unit) continues spill shockwaves across the net.  Here are a couple of collections of articles and a complete database of the leaked Climate gate documents:

http://www.globalwarming.org/2009/11/30/cooler-heads-digest-30-november-2009-special-climategate-issue/

http://www.climate-gate.org

And here are a couple of cogent blog postings by Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance and Energy Markets Director of the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business, University of Houston concerning the peer review process and and even the potential problems of the code used to develop climate models:

Let (Peer Reviewed) Publishing Perish?

Code Breaking–or, Broken Code

It would appear that both climate science software and the peer review process would benefit by being open sourced.