Posted on 12/06/2009 12:26:28 PM PST by neverdem
UN officials likened the Climategate controversy to Watergate today, claiming that computer hackers who stole thousands of e-mails sent by a senior climate scientist were probably paid to do it by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit.
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the theft from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics but a sophisticated and well-funded attempt to destroy public confidence in the science of man-made climate change.
He said the fact that the e-mails were first uploaded to a sceptic website from a computer in Russia was an indication that the culprit was paid.
"It's very common for hackers in Russia to be paid for their services.
"If you look at that mass of e-mails a lot of work was done, not only to download the data but it's a carefully made selection of e-mails and documents that's not random at all. This is 13 years of data and it's not a job of amateurs."
Mr van Ypersele said that publication of the e-mails had undermined efforts by the IPCC to convince the 192 countries at Copenhagen that they needed to act fast on emissions.
"One effect of this is to make scientists lose lots of time checking things.
"We are spending a lot of useless time discussing this rather than spending time preparing information for the negotiators."
He rejected claims by sceptics that the e-mails showed efforts had been made to manipulate the data to exaggerate the warming trend.
"It doesn't change anything in the IPCC's conclusions. It's only one line of evidence out of dozens of lines of evidence."
Achim Steiner, director of the UN Environment Programme...
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You are correct IMHO that it was a whistleblower leak, and I had to LOL when I read that these people who “hacked” the emails had to be “paid” to do this. And .. the guy who was paying them was against the Climate Change mantra.
ROTFLOL!! The only reason the liberals think that way is because ..... THAT’S WHAT THEY WOULD DO - SO THEY ASSUME EVERYBODY ELSE DOES IT TOO!!!
Just like Jamie Gorelick managed to weasel her way onto the 9/11 Commission panel. It was the Gorelick "Wall" which, more than any one thing, allowed 9/11 to happen.
The moral: when you’re caught, bring up Watergate or accuse the enemy of being a fascist. The media will take it from there.
Deep Throat has the same advise now that He had in the 60s.
Follow the money
Not much rattles the UN the way this has. Even UN child molesting didn’t bring this kind of response.
They are still at Stage One:
FIVE STAGES OF DENYING DEATH
1) Denial -- The emails dont mean anything
2) Anger -- How DARE that hacker raid our privacy!
3) Bargaining -- Youre the Media cover for us! We won't lie any more!
4) Depression -- Oh God, Climategate is gaining traction! ·
5) Acceptance -- Maybe I can get a job at McDonalds
lol.. Hellooooo..
Nixon created the EPA, you dumb bunnies..
Oh, no; not ALL of them. Sen. Barbara Boxer has made it to at least Stage 2 with her “E-mail-gate” comment.
She’s at least on par with a few 18th Century British Loyalists who were upset that Paul Revere had been out past curfew.
UN officials likened the Climategate controversy to Watergate today, claiming that computer hackers who stole thousands of e-mails sent by a senior climate scientist were probably paid to do it by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit.Oh! Does this mean Richard Nixon is going to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously? Thanks neverdem.
Hoo Hah! Thank You for that!
Bush is on record as a sceptic about global warming; they haven’t yet figured out how to turn their spin inside out in order to blame him.
"Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked [epic fraud?]"
Click the picture:
And yes, it is a swindle- a fraud and a cheat and a scam-- a deliberately designed construct intended to con you out of things you hold dear-- money, prosperity, freedom... and a few other things, as well.
By chance, is anyone aware of how I could donate money to have other AGW "scientists" computers hacked?
PROBABLY???
You mean you don't know?
Sacre bleu, Jean-Paul. How can we find out for sure?
Oh?
And how do you know this, c'est vous plais?
I wonder if anyone is expending the energy to find out who the whistle blowers are? I remember when the book Primary Colors was published. The author was Anonymous. The presstitutes hunted him down like a wild pig!
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