‘Climate-gate’ resurfaces with a new round of e-mails
By Juliet Eilperin,
WashPost
Wednesday, November 23, 4:28 AM
Less than a week before U.N. negotiators convene in South Africa for a new round of talks aimed at forging a global climate pact, a hacker has released an apparent second round of e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain, seeking to portray climate scientists in a negative light.
The e-mail exchanges, which appear to have been pulled from the same set of pirated electronic files taken from servers at the university’s Climatic Research Unit more than two years ago, do not contain any new revelations about research linking human activity to global warming. But the release highlights the ongoing conflict between some bloggers and climate-change skeptics who challenge this scientific consensus, and those who support it.
In 2009, an anonymous hacker posted more than 1,000 e-mails from the University of East Anglia on the Web, sparking a controversy dubbed “Climate-gate” by some media outlets and prompting many conservatives in the United States and elsewhere to question whether human activity induces global warming. British police have investigated the e-mail piracy but have yet to identify who was behind it.
Those e-mails painted the scientific climate establishment as combative and clubby, but a half-dozen investigations in the United States and Britain found no evidence that the scientists had manipulated data, as critics alleged.
(More here.)
WashPost
Wednesday, November 23, 4:28 AM
Less than a week before U.N. negotiators convene in South Africa for a new round of talks aimed at forging a global climate pact, a hacker has released an apparent second round of e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain, seeking to portray climate scientists in a negative light.
The e-mail exchanges, which appear to have been pulled from the same set of pirated electronic files taken from servers at the university’s Climatic Research Unit more than two years ago, do not contain any new revelations about research linking human activity to global warming. But the release highlights the ongoing conflict between some bloggers and climate-change skeptics who challenge this scientific consensus, and those who support it.
In 2009, an anonymous hacker posted more than 1,000 e-mails from the University of East Anglia on the Web, sparking a controversy dubbed “Climate-gate” by some media outlets and prompting many conservatives in the United States and elsewhere to question whether human activity induces global warming. British police have investigated the e-mail piracy but have yet to identify who was behind it.
Those e-mails painted the scientific climate establishment as combative and clubby, but a half-dozen investigations in the United States and Britain found no evidence that the scientists had manipulated data, as critics alleged.
(More here.)
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At the very least the emails cast a shadow on the so called climate scientists. Follow the money.
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