ClimateGate - Climate center's server hacked revealing documents and emails
November 20, 7:27 AMClimate Change ExaminerTony Hake
Britain's Hadley Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, suffered
a data breach in recent days when a hacker apparently broke into their
system and made away with thousands of emails and documents. The stolen data
was then posted to a Russian server and has quickly made the rounds among
climate skeptics. The documents within the archive, if proven to be
authentic, would at best be embarrassing for many prominent climate
researchers and at worst, damning.
Update, 10:30am: The BBC has now picked up on the story and analysis of the
documents continues. Scroll down for the latest or click here.
The electronic break in itself has been verified by the director of the
research unit, Professor Phil Jones. He told Britain's Investigate
magazine's TGIF Edition "It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three
or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and
copied loads of data files and emails."
The file that has been making the rounds was initially brought to light by
the website The Air Vent. The 61mb file contains thousands of documents and
emails. As the archive was just discovered within the last 24 hours, its
authenticity has not been determined and as such readers should cast a
skeptical eye on the contents. It should also be noted that it appears the
emails were illegally obtained by whoever originally posted them.
At least one person that was included in some of the correspondence, Steve
McIntyre of the website Climate Audit, verified the authenticity of at least
some of the messages. McIntyre said, "Every email that I've examined so far
looks genuine. There are a few emails of mine that are 100% genuine. It is
really quite breathtaking."
The contents of the archive contain documents and email correspondence from
a veritable who's who in climate science. Among those included in the emails
are Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, his assistant, Michael Mann of the University
of Virginia, Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona, Kevin Trenberth at
the National Center for Atmospheric Research, James Hansen of NASA's Goddard
Institute of Space Studies and others.
The emails contain an array of discussions including what appear to be
concerted efforts to withhold data. Just as troubling is conversations that
allude to potentially manipulating climate data to "hide the decline" of
temperatures seen in the last decade.
Some of the excerpts of emails within the archives (edited for brevity,
emphasis added): /.../
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Smart questions to stupid answers
> http://miniurl.pl/global-warning
> Britain's Hadley Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia,
suffered
> a data breach in recent days when a hacker apparently broke into their
> system and made away with thousands of emails and documents. The stolen
data
> was then posted to a Russian server and has quickly made the rounds among
> climate skeptics. The documents within the archive, if proven to be
> authentic, would at best be embarrassing for many prominent climate
> researchers and at worst, damning.
Tu wiecej, z Australii (ciekawe glosy na forum):
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/h
adley_hacked/
Hackers targeted the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit and
published the files, including some personal messages, on the internet.
Among the most damaging is one which appears to suggest using a 'trick' to
massage years of temperature data to 'hide the decline'.
Ciekawe, jaki udzial w tej konspiracji mial 'klimatolog' Trela? ;-)))
Nie widac go ostatnio. Widocznie sie przeziebil -- uparcie chodzil
nago bo mialo byc 'global warming'?
s.
Do emerytury bedzie pewnie przyklepywal modne "ocieplenie".
Pozniej bedzie pisac rewelacje o swoich przekretach...
Kazdy musi z czegos zyc.