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By Michelle Malkin • November 20, 2009 12:23 PM
Anthony Watts of Watt’s Up With That? and Stephen McIntrye of Climate Audit broke the story this morning of the hacking break-in at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU).
BBC confirms:
The e-mail system of one of the world’s leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.
E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
A university spokesman confirmed the email system had been hacked and that information was taken and published without permission.
An investigation was underway and the police had been informed, he added.
“We are aware that information from a server used for research information in one area of the university has been made available on public websites,” the spokesman stated.
“Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm that all of this material is genuine.
“This information has been obtained and published without our permission and we took immediate action to remove the server in question from operation.
“We are undertaking a thorough internal investigation and we have involved the police in this enquiry.”
Researchers at CRU, one of the world’s leading research bodies on natural and human-induced climate change, played a key role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, which is considered to be the most authoritative report of its kind.
First things first: The alleged hackers need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
That said: The crimes revealed in the e-mails promise to be the global warming scandal of the century — and have massive bearing on the climate change legislation being considered by our lawmakers here at home.
Helpful rundowns of all the latest developments at Hot Air, Shout First, Andrew Bolt, and from James Delingpole at the Telegraph, who sums up some of the most damning e-mails:
When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:
Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:
“In an odd way this is cheering news.”
But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.
Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:
Manipulation of evidence:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
Suppression of evidence:
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:
Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.
Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):
……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….
And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority…
The Chicago Way is the Global Warming Mob Way.
Stay tuned.
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#844995On November 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, d1carter said:
Algore weeps…
#844996On November 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, tre said:
Those global warming hackers should be thrown in the “cooler” for a few years.
I guess this is yet another example of how it isn’t science anymore. Global warming is now strictly in the realm of politics and religion.
#844997On November 20th, 2009 at 12:34 pm, T-Bone said:
Ya think?
#844998On November 20th, 2009 at 12:34 pm, et said:
Lock up Al Gore and give this hacker a medal.
#845001On November 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm, MBuck said:
Soviet science at its best.
#845006On November 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm, coffee said:
I don’t need the hacked data to tell me GW is a hoax …unfortunately, I do need it to prove that the GW truthers in Congress are corrupt or incompetent. Either way, proof that they need to be gone.
#845007On November 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm, Cogs said:
Wouldn’t expect anything else from the Adolph Gore types.
#845009On November 20th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, traveler49 said:
How will my brother explain this away?
#845011On November 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm, TK-421 said:
Gee the Goverment is lying, putting up data it wants to be shown, manipulation of the facts?
(Yawns) Smells like any other day on capital hill.
Honestly not surprised in any of this minus it took so long to show, the hackers are still alive and that the media has scant to zero coverage on this….opps thats not a surprise..
#845014On November 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm, Roland said:
First things first: The alleged hackers need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
You are assuming we are still operating under a legitimate rule of law, Michelle.
This action appears to be closer to the real Boston Tea Party than anything the Tea Partiers have done so far.
#845016On November 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm, TK-421 said:
Indeed it does Roland, the Tea party act back then was seen as a major crime, and imprisonment or death could have resulted. Now its moan with signs with some small hope, stupidly so, that the goverment actully cares what the people want minus vote grabbing time.
#845018On November 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm, max said:
The BBC artfully neglects to mention any inkling of the true scandal.. what a surprise.
#845019On November 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm, cicerokid said:
It’s Boosh’s fault.
#845022On November 20th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, jsr said:
If there is no global warming, then how can we explain the increase in Philippine hookers? I thought the link between the two is conclusive and debate was over. Or maybe the data on the hookers has been manipulated too? Could it be that there has been a decrease in Asian prostitutes, thus indicating the earth is actually cooling and this is being covered up?
#845023On November 20th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, traveler49 said:
On November 20th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, traveler49 said:
How will my brother explain this away?
On November 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm, cicerokid said:
It’s Boosh’s fault.
These two go together.
#845024On November 20th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, AntonK said:
Does anyone know how El Stupido is responding to this story? He’s a real backer of Global Warmaing having, as he put it, studied the science himself.
Sorry to ask, but I just can’t bear to go to his site.
#845026On November 20th, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Sabiankinslow said:
I do not like hackers and other people who abuse computer skills to damage others and their personal property (virus makers, etc.) and think they should be found and prosecuted fully. That being said, it seems that one (or more) of these individuals has, for once, used their talents to a good end. They are exposing the fraud for what it is.
I imagine that the damage control spin will be that a hack took place but all the data that is being shown on the internet is false.
One can only hope that a “real” team of lawyers get together and subpoena the servers and obtain all the data to verify the validity of it during the full investigation. Then make it public record. Won’t that be quite the kettle of fish?
#845027On November 20th, 2009 at 12:58 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
Scientists gone gangsta! Who’d a thunk!
Like gun control, we need to ban slide rules!
#845028On November 20th, 2009 at 1:00 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
Babs Boxer, we won. Get a life.
#845029On November 20th, 2009 at 1:00 pm, stillontheroad said:
I have been reading a lot more of the hacked files and to me this is not only a smoking gun but a near fire storm. ManBearPig and all his followers have had their ears pinned back with this info. Problem with this is – this outfit saying they lost all their data. Watch this cover up happen at light speed.
#845031On November 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm, T-Bone said:
Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.
Of course they have. Al Gores film was found in a British court to have done exactly that.
To me, this has been obvious for a while and is a major scandal. These people are enriching themselves in this process. See Al Gore. Corruption, greed, and fraud of the highest order. Worldwide.
Follow the money.
#845033On November 20th, 2009 at 1:04 pm, FruNobulux said:
Like most items on the liberal agenda — another trumped-up “problem” with a completely bogus “solution” that just conveniently happens to hand billions of dollars over to — wait for it — leftist causes.
Either this tactic is getting old, or I am getting wise.
#845034On November 20th, 2009 at 1:04 pm, reutersrutter said:
Example of email 2008.
Dear XXXX,
This is a little disappointing. We decided to submit our paper to IJoC
in order to correct serious scientific errors in the Douglass et al.
IJoC paper. We believe that there is some urgency here. Extraordinary
claims are being made regarding the scientific value of the Douglass et
al. paper, in part by co-authors of that paper. One co-author (S. Fred
Singer) has used the findings of Douglass et al. to buttress his
argument that “Nature not CO2, rules the climate”. The longer such
erroneous claims are made without any form of scientific rebuttal, the
more harm is caused.
In our communications with Dr. xxxxx, we were informed that the review
process would be handled as expeditiously as possible. Had I known that
it would take nearly two months until we received a complete set of
review comments, I would not have submitted our paper to IJoC.
With best regards,
xxx xxxxx
#845035On November 20th, 2009 at 1:06 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
Every single person implicated in those emails and files should have their credentials revoked and never allowed to work in science again. Science is supposed to be about following the facts to their conclusion, not vice versa. Intellectual honesty must be re-instated. Roll heads!
#845036On November 20th, 2009 at 1:06 pm, localmalcontent said:
First things first: The alleged hackers need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Not in my book: Let’s herald them as heroes, for their work exposing this worldwide fraud and tax scheme.
#845037On November 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm, Laree said:
I wonder if the hackers were Chinese?
They are really not interested in joining in Cap and Trade. I bet they know what it would do to our economy and they really want us to be able to pay them the money we owe them…just sayin they have a motive, and they are known for hacking stuff.
#845040On November 20th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, RedDog said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA…. We all knew this to be the case. Now the little Neo-Druids have been caught red handed. As with most of the world’s problems, if you dry up the government (taxpayer) money doled out to explicitly sponser science fraud, this crap mysteriously goes away.
#845041On November 20th, 2009 at 1:12 pm, Hangfire said:
This site is the only place I will ever hear of this scandal.
It will be conveniently ignored by the mainstream media.
The truth isn’t news.
#845043On November 20th, 2009 at 1:12 pm, tomg51 said:
Anyone know who funds these guys?
#845046On November 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm, carole said:
Inhofe……”get a life”
Could we all chip in and get a billboard at Hollywood and Vine…..hey celebutards……Shut Up
#845048On November 20th, 2009 at 1:15 pm, Flyoverman said:
On November 20th, 2009 at 1:06 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
Every single person implicated in those emails and files should have their credentials revoked and never allowed to work in science again.
A scientist is only as good has his or her credability. No need to worry. these people have destroyed themselves.
#845052On November 20th, 2009 at 1:17 pm, Flyoverman said:
“IGNORE THOSE MEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN, I am the Great and Powerful Gore.”
The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.
#845054On November 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, rotarymunkey said:
I think I’m going to go outside today in here in seasonally-cool Southern California and fire off my CO2 powered air pistol in celebration!
Anyone else notice that Al Gore visited San Fran just as a major winter storm arrived this week?
#845055On November 20th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, rowsdower said:
Let’s see, who can the leftards blame this on? Booosh? Palin? Beck? Limbaugh? Filipina Firecrackers?
#845056On November 20th, 2009 at 1:25 pm, meatsss said:
Did somebody say Pentagon Papers?
#845060On November 20th, 2009 at 1:29 pm, txvet2 said:
You don’t even need these hacked records. There has been research out there that totally debunks much of the “warmist” line – it justs gets buried by the media and academia.
#845061On November 20th, 2009 at 1:30 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
Did they uncover any evidence supporting yesterday’s claim that climate change drives poor women into prostitution? I always thought they did it for the money.
#845062On November 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, orlandocajun said:
Like so many, I never believed in man-made global warming or the conspiracy to steal money from the world’s producing class.
Far be it for me to gloat but…hee, hee, hee, hee!
If any of these criminals are arrested, I’ll be back not to gloat again.
#845064On November 20th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, nbarry said:
This kind of scientific fraud has been going on for 25 years with respect to AIDS. As with the Church of Global Warming, the Church of AIDS has set up its own Holy Office of the Inquisition to silence dissent. See numerous articles on this by Clark Baker, investigator for the Semmelweis Society International, at http://exlibhollywood.blogspot.com.
#845065On November 20th, 2009 at 1:37 pm, dan708 said:
I hope all of those who have this hacked information are taking extraordinary steps to protect THEIR OWN servers. I wouldn’t put anything past the Gorebal Warming nuts.
#845066On November 20th, 2009 at 1:38 pm, nbarry said:
Oops, I forgot to add the slash after the .com.
#845068On November 20th, 2009 at 1:39 pm, cicerokid said:
“As climate heats up, so do Filipinas”.
#845074On November 20th, 2009 at 1:47 pm, spaceycakes said:
AntonK–praat jy afrikaans?
#845075On November 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm, AlohaGuy said:
No one who has worked in academia will be surprised.
#845077On November 20th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, MarcoPolo said:
From the files:
From: “Mick Kelly”
To: Nguyen Huu Ninh ([email protected])
Subject: NOAA funding
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:17:15 +0000
Ninh
NOAA want to give us more money for the El Nino work with IGCN.
How much do we have left from the last budget? I reckon most has been spent but we need to show some left to cover the costs of the trip Roger didn’t make and also the fees/equipment/computer money we haven’t spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious.
Politically this money may have to go through Simon’s institute but there overhead rate is high so maybe not!
Best wishes
Mick
Knowing a bit about government money, I understand this to mean …they didn’t keep their funds segregated, and are fudging numbers. Mick is saying that their expenditure reporting can’t show a zero balance because they are supposed to have money left over. They probably need the add on contract (the aforementioned money NOAA wants to give them) so that they can use it to complete their original contract.
#845079On November 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, Misscheryl said:
So ah, who thinks the Nobel Peace Prize is worth a plug nickel now?
#845080On November 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority…
The EXACT same thing is true in another area of the scientific community.
If you haven’t already, watch the movie:
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
#845084On November 20th, 2009 at 2:05 pm, NJ-Aviator said:
These people should be jailed.
No…. not the ones that broke into the email server….
The people that wrote the emails revealing the Global Scam they are trying to pull on America and some others. It’s not at all surprising.
And any congressional rep that doesn’t demand and IMMEDIATE HALT to all things related to Global Warming and Climate change needs to be tossed in a cell.
This is an outrage and heads need to roll.
#845089On November 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm, Misscheryl said:
Al Gore needs to be in jail and all the money he has robbed from American citizens should be repaid. Bottom Feeder!
#845090On November 20th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
For those interested… (If you don’t care for my posts, ignore these links)
It’s Not Environmentalism, It’s Communism
What Does the AGW Movement Have in Common with Jihad?
Top Five LIES Being Spread By Today’s Scientific Community
#845091On November 20th, 2009 at 2:17 pm, iamsaved said:
The reaction will be the same as when their predecessors of long ago were told the shocking truth that the earth wasn’t flat. Oh the humiliation for being so foolish. They’ll be Gorified.
#845093On November 20th, 2009 at 2:18 pm, California Red said:
If only Obama had his kill switch on the internet he could have prenented this travesty. Obviously we need new hacking laws and more government control of the internet.
#845094On November 20th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Taqiyyotomist said:
When asked if it would investigate the departments and persons responsible for the contents of the E-mails, the representatives of the university said, “Obviously this is something which needs to be studied, and for this we’ll need more funding. Federal and State grants wouldn’t hurt. We’ll put out the call to our alumni. Hey, I got an over-bumperstickered Volvo to pay for!”
#845097On November 20th, 2009 at 2:23 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
From a Hot Air comment:
…the “smoking gun” is scientists talking for 10 years about manipulating data and misleading the public. The smoking gun would be a lack of warming for years. The smoking gun would be even global warming proponents admitting they can’t find the warming. The smoking gun would be places like NASA, which proponents based much of their propaganda upon, altering data in an admission that they totally screwed up.
amerpundit on November 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM
#845100On November 20th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, ErikTheRed said:
I disagree that the hackers should be jailed. When individuals, governments, institutions and corporations join together pull a multi-trillion-dollar scam and spectacularly huge power-grab of this magnitude it’s everyone’s civic and human duty to do what they can to stop them. I say give the hackers a medal.
#845102On November 20th, 2009 at 2:28 pm, Taqiyyotomist said:
Mark my words. The university and this program will, as a result of this, receive MORE MONEY, OUR F***ING MONEY, so they can “investigate” themselves and “get to the root of all this.”
And pay for their f***ing lattes and idiocy-covered Volvos.
No matter what the outcome, MORE MONEY.
That’s the end of every nature program. “We need more money to study the problem.” That’s the end of every “scientific” essay. “We need more money to study the problem.” No matter what the outcome of the essay or study or TV-show, that’s the conclusion each and every time.
“We need more money, OH POOR F***ING US, POOR F***ING FOREST CREATURES, the cruel capitalists and Westerners and greedy polluters won’t give us
MORE
F***ING
MONEY.
Every show. Every essay. Every article. Every g**damn one of these so-called scientists only want one thing. More money to be given to them.
#845104On November 20th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, Taqiyyotomist said:
Give us more money so we can get even better at scaring you into giving us more money so that we can be better at scaring you into giving us more money so that we can be better at scaring you into giving us more money…………….
#845105On November 20th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, Brian Paasch said:
Nothing to see here. Move along.
#845106On November 20th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, T-Bone said:
Those prostitutes must be some hot babes.
#845108On November 20th, 2009 at 2:34 pm, Mercy4Me said:
F#ck all this Government crap.
This Government has been against the people since Lincoln took office.
We have lost the Republic. We need a civil war and divide this f#ucked up country into parts. Those who want big Gov. and those who want Jeffersonian limited Gov. Lets get it on and battle for the Republic.
I ain’t calling, faxing or going to any elected officials office anymore.
IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYWAY! THEY ARE POCKET LINERS!
#845109On November 20th, 2009 at 2:35 pm, NBF said:
I’ve seen some commentators wrongly comparing this fraud to religious belief.
The opposite is true. Religion is the proper attitude taken by man toward God. It is based on adherence to Truth. True religion rejects falsehood and fraud as sinful offenses to God who is Truth.
#845110On November 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, WarEagle82 said:
An excerpt from Monday’s press release from the university…
East Anglia regrets the disclosure of said information without admitting or denying the authenticity and accuracy of said information.
We do strongly stand by our belief that our fantasies of “man made global warming” are too important to allow contrary facts to get in the way. We are sure that all “right-minded” citizens of the planet feel the same way and will not dither about whether the world is, in fact, actually growing cooler or not.
#845111On November 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, AlohaGuy said:
The hackers should be protected under some whistleblower arrangement.
BTW – I bet Al Gore is sorry he invented the Internet.
#845113On November 20th, 2009 at 2:39 pm, NJ-Aviator said:
Once this starts circulating widely, you’ll here the Obama Admiistration throwing these people under the bus and claiming that
…”Just because we have some bad apples this does not mean we don’t have a global warming crisis. We’ve already agreed this crisis exists. These rogue email do not change that fact.”
Yeah, you can bet they’ll try to dismiss it. We can’t let them get away with it.
#845115On November 20th, 2009 at 2:39 pm, SpeakEasy said:
I thought liberals loved whistleblowers and believed the ends justify the means? It Sucks when we play by the same rules, huh? Isn’t this speaking truth to power?
Kudos to the hackers. The truth really will set you free.
#845121On November 20th, 2009 at 2:48 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
Those hackers should be punished very nearly as severely as Sen Burris (D-ILL) has been by the Senate Ethics Panel.
#845124On November 20th, 2009 at 2:50 pm, Taqiyyotomist said:
OH YEAH.
This is a “tiny minority” of scientists.
LOL Where have we heard that before.
As in the case with that old Muslim-apologist chestnut, I don’t believe it here.
This is a multi-trillion dollar industry, across a plethora of scientific “disciplines”, from archaeologists to geologists to biologists to nearly every other -ist you could think of. Not a tiny minority, but a HUGE NETWORK of colleges and universities and programs and departments whose sole purpose is to steal your money and destroy your country’s foundations, all the while calling it Holy Altruistic Science For the Puppies and Children, rendering it immune to all criticism.
These ScareScientists are all globe-trotting, island-resort-staying, multiple-house-and-condo-having, newest-Volvo-driving, every-damn-gadget-owning, $200-dinner-eating, winecork-sniffing, GODDAMN THIEVES.
It’s not a tiny minority.
IT’S A DEMOGRAPHIC.
#845126On November 20th, 2009 at 2:52 pm, Taqiyyotomist said:
Judgement day can’t come soon enough for me.
*spit*
#845129On November 20th, 2009 at 2:54 pm, groundhunter said:
The hackers did us a public service. Illegal for certain, but they will have served the public good in any event.
This has been coming for a while. Efforts to get copies of original data and computer programs from CRU has been thwarted at every attempt. The clear indication was that something was not right with how data had been stored, processed, etc. The emails make it clear that a long running fraud has been ongoing on the public. There must be a criminal investigation of this group immediately.
If I was one of them I would fold my tent and find a quiet warm place to spend the rest of my life where no one could find me. They are in a lot of trouble.
#845134On November 20th, 2009 at 3:01 pm, NJ-Aviator said:
Phil Jones, the head of the Hadley CRU, confirmed that the leaked data is real.
“It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago,” he told the magazine, noting that the center has yet to contact the police about the data breach.
TGIF Edition asked Jones about the controversial “hide the decline” comment from an e-mail he wrote in 1999. He told the magazine that there was no intention to mislead, but he had “no idea” what he meant by those words.
“That was an e-mail from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago?” he said.
IT seems to be confirmed that the emails are real.. but Phil Jones, head of the CRU and author of many of the emails says…
He has no idea what he meant by those words.
Please… so he just going to attempt to play dumb like a 5 year old that got cought with his hand in the cookie jar.
Son… is that a cookie in your hand?
I don’t knoooow…..
Weak. But for me, it confirms these are real emails and they did fabricate their data to fit an agenda.
I can’t wait to hear the leftists communists in our Congress try to blow this off.
#845137On November 20th, 2009 at 3:08 pm, ScottyDog said:
Maybe the servers were not hacked at all but a scientist that works there may have had it and faked a hacking to expose the fraud by his fellow scientists.
Just a thought.
The billions that have been wasted on this hoax is just horrendous. I hope that all involved will be prosecuted for falsifying data and fired from research institutions they work for like Dr James Hansen the head of NASA climate research.
He has been caught twice releasing phony temperature data but he still works at NASA despite being caught.
The bottom line is man made Global Warming is the biggest hoax in history. Here is an excerpt from the Hansen article:
“Foisted upon the public by means of giant multi-million dollar PR campaigns and brainwashing mandates that have worked themselves into every sector of society, including education, movies, television the arts and culture, all the attention and funding is being lavished upon a manufactured hoax, peddled with the aid of phony data, as governments prepare to suck what’s left out of the middle class and poor with carbon taxes that do nothing to help the environment, while all the real environmental problems are left in the shadows.”
#845141On November 20th, 2009 at 3:17 pm, Taqiyyotomist said:
Last rant on this:
Not only is it a multitrillion-dollar industry, and not only do these scum scare-scientists comprise a whole giant demographic, so big that whole industries have formed to cater to their princely lifestyles, but they have redefined and extreme-ized the word “ENTRENCHED”.
These so-called “scientists”, in every field and -ology in the dictionary of -ologies, some even made up out of whole cloth and made to appear “legitimate science”, and their departments and their groups and their think-tanks are inextricably and impossibly knotted together with HUNDREDS of intergovernmental agencies worldwide, HUNDREDS of U.N. programs, a veritable alphabet-soup of agencies and programs and councils.
Add to that the personal bedfellow backscratching with U.S. congressmen and senators and the incestuous relationship they all share with “Green” industry and their willing and also globe-trotting, resort-staying, Conde-Naste-Traveller-lifestyle-having propagandists in the media from Hollywood to TV-land.
And they ALL think they’re morally superior to you, Middle America. While stealing your money and living like kings.
HELL ISN’T GONNA BE A LONELY PLACE.
#845145On November 20th, 2009 at 3:21 pm, WarEagle82 said:
I don’t think “whistle blower” laws convey immunity from prosecution for illegally accessing protected computer networks. Still, I am grateful to whomever posted the material.
Are there FOIA laws in the UK? Can people in the UK now file under such laws to review similar correspondence from the universities implicated in this behavior? Is this the proverbial “crack in the ice” to the scam of “global warming?”
Oddly enough, Pravda has been publishing articles from Russian climatologists predicting the “coming ice age” for years! I wonder if there is any connection between Pravda and the Russian ftp server where this showed up?
On November 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, AlohaGuy said:
The hackers should be protected under some whistleblower arrangement.
BTW – I bet Al Gore is sorry he invented the Internet.
#845149On November 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm, Truesoldier said:
The sad thing is it took hackers to get this information out.
#845152On November 20th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, vickisoup said:
On November 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
Exactly what I was thinking, ITRP.
#845154On November 20th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, WarEagle82 said:
Well, we know they are constantly and blatantly lying to us on a wide number of issues. Will the AP assign 11 fact checkers to this story?
Makes you wonder who is watching the self-appointed “watch dogs?”
On November 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm, Truesoldier said:
The sad thing is it took hackers to get this information out.
#845156On November 20th, 2009 at 3:34 pm, JonB said:
“Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm that all of this material is genuine.”
That line right there will tell you exactly how they intend to cover this up. They will claim that in order to “forward their own agenda” the hackers “inserted falsified material” into the actual e-mails they obtained, in order to make it look like it was genuine information.
#845157On November 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm, vickisoup said:
Did you see Al Gore on “30 Rock” last night? What a shameless propagandist. I bet Alec Bladwin thought it would be so cool to have him on. He wasn’t even remotely funny, not that it surprised me.
#845158On November 20th, 2009 at 3:36 pm, Rob said:
And the main street media will play this as their lead story tonight… riiiiiight.
#845159On November 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, AlohaGuy said:
Note to hackers – Occidental, Columbia. Just sayin’.
#845160On November 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, spaceycakes said:
you are use-ress Arec Bardwin!
#845168On November 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, single stack said:
First things first: The alleged hackers need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I disagree. Whoever did this should be hailed as a hero for providing definite proof of one of the greatest crimes against humanity in modern history. The global warming hoax is nothing less than an attempt to enslave all of mankind in a world authoritarian regime that is attempting to stop all human progress and keep nearly everyone on earth impoverished and living on a bare subsistence level.
#845169On November 20th, 2009 at 3:55 pm, graysonret said:
There are many ignorant, and some stupid, people who still insist we’re all doomed, unless we hand over all our liberties and freedom to the government, who are delighted at the prospect. Throughout history, governments have “worked to protect its citizens” by suppressing them, in the interest of “their safety”. We had many periods of “global warming”; the last was 1000 AD. Notice that the polar bears are still around. Then we went into a “mini ice-age”. During the global warming of 1000 AD, when mankind was “doomed”, agriculture thrived, ending famines. Exploration was easier, and, yes, Greenland was named that, because the coast was green and farmable, for a short period. Wine grapes were grown in Northern England. If you don’t believe that, check the street names in many towns there, that are still named after the vineyards. Why people want to give up every freedom of their lives to greedy and egotistical politicans, is beyond me; unless they are ignorant of history or think they will be exempt when the government agents come knocking.
#845175On November 20th, 2009 at 4:00 pm, tbear44 said:
Why….I’m…Shocked!
#845178On November 20th, 2009 at 4:01 pm, Speakup said:
Global warming is from the success the whackadoo religion enjoyed in lying about the spotted owl, except on steroids.
Environmentalists were finally forced to admit they lied, that is after forest product companies didn’t exist in California and nearly gone in other states.
Perpetrating lies about global warming?
Its stock in trade, perhaps some accountability (jail time) will sharpen liars moral heading who treat the public like Jimmie Baker did.
Time to retire from carbon credit stock.
To bad the great lord god Al wasn’t in those emails.
The Sad Case of the Spotted Owl
by Tom DeWeese (June 20, 2007)
Environmentalists are quick to lecture the rest of us about the ways of nature. Don’t clean the dead trees off the forest floor, it’s natural. Cattle and horses on the range aren’t native, so let the grizzles and wolves devour them, it’s natural. Man isn’t part of the ecology, lock him out of vast areas of land, it’s natural. It’s interesting to note how the “natural” argument only applies when it is used to impose the radical environmental agenda. Case in point, the Northern Spotted Owl.
Spotted owls, we were told a decade ago, were disappearing because big bad timber companies were cutting down “old growth” forests. So the environmental movement rushed to the forests, hugged the trees and issued news releases to decry the evils of the logging industry. Save the owl. Save the trees. Kill the timber industry.
#845182On November 20th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, SDN said:
Prosecute them, Michelle? Not just no but H*LL no. They should get the same protections as the “brave whistleblowers” who were able to leak classified info to the Times.
I’ll start worrying about breaking the laws when they apply to everyone equally.
#845183On November 20th, 2009 at 4:25 pm, swede said:
But perhaps the most damaging. revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.
Ya don’t say! This is like the ACORN scandal “breaking”. Everybody already knew it, now here’s the smoking gun.
#845185On November 20th, 2009 at 4:31 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:
Given how we’ve been fleeced for close to 80 BILLION dollars of OUR tax money to ’study’ global warming and ’stimulate’ sustainable energy production – the distinction as to who are the real criminals in this case is rather blurred to me.
#845188On November 20th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, corkie said:
2009 will become known as the year of AGW’s decline.
#845192On November 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
Has anybody checked Sandy Burglar’s underwear lately?
#845194On November 20th, 2009 at 5:03 pm, Misscheryl said:
2:38 pm, AlohaGuy said:
The hackers should be protected under some whistleblower arrangement.
BTW – I bet Al Gore is sorry he invented the Internet
Absolutely the best comment in a long, long time. Thanks for the laugh!
#845196On November 20th, 2009 at 5:05 pm, jt3151 said:
I am very skeptical of this, if it is played up too much and then shown to be a fraud it will serve to discredit MMGW skeptics forevermore.
#845199On November 20th, 2009 at 5:30 pm, Truesoldier said:
Is there any timeline of when the hacking took place and how long after the files were downloaded were the uploaded to the internet? If it was a very short time it would be very difficult to alter that many documents.
#845203On November 20th, 2009 at 5:40 pm, SHoward said:
I am very skeptical of this, if it is played up too much and then shown to be a fraud it will serve to discredit MMGW skeptics forevermore.
That is a very astute observation. Could we be biting down on a tasty morsel, only to find it embedded with a hook, which someone is about to set?
As has been pointed out, the ’scientists’ in the emails only need claim they’re lies and most media outlets will leave them alone, then blame the right for manufacturing the debacle. If you are correct, however, the AGW alarmists may be about to score a massive victory. They could very well have planned this themselves.
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