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Climategate controversy has echoes of Watergate, UN says
Times Online (UK) ^ | December 6, 2009 | Ben Webster and Murad Ahmed

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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KEYWORDS: climatechange; climategate; cru; gorebalism; ipcc; unitednations; watergate
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To: neverdem; All

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!!!


21 posted on 12/06/2009 12:46:06 PM PST by CyberAnt (Healthcare is not a RIGHT guaranteed by the Constitution)
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To: cripplecreek
Funny how one of the guilty parties wants to insert themselves in as an investigator.

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.

22 posted on 12/06/2009 12:55:43 PM PST by giotto
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To: neverdem

The moral: when you’re caught, bring up Watergate or accuse the enemy of being a fascist. The media will take it from there.


23 posted on 12/06/2009 12:55:59 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: abclily

Deep Throat has the same advise now that He had in the 60s.

Follow the money


24 posted on 12/06/2009 1:00:44 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: giotto

Not much rattles the UN the way this has. Even UN child molesting didn’t bring this kind of response.


25 posted on 12/06/2009 1:05:21 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: neverdem
THE UN, THE NWO, THE GLOBAL WARMING DECEPTION is a world wide cult of deception......

Learn from the past.....















26 posted on 12/06/2009 1:11:33 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: neverdem
He rejected claims by sceptics that the e-mails showed efforts had been made to manipulate the data to exaggerate the warming trend.

They are still at Stage One:
FIVE STAGES OF DENYING DEATH
1) Denial -- The emails don’t mean anything
2) Anger -- How DARE that hacker raid our privacy!
3) Bargaining -- You’re 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

27 posted on 12/06/2009 1:13:03 PM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: neverdem

lol.. Hellooooo..
Nixon created the EPA, you dumb bunnies..


28 posted on 12/06/2009 1:15:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: Oatka

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.


29 posted on 12/06/2009 1:18:50 PM PST by HKMk23 (In the end, life contains only one tragedy: not to have been a saint.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
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.
30 posted on 12/06/2009 1:23:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: cripplecreek

Hoo Hah! Thank You for that!


31 posted on 12/06/2009 1:34:33 PM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: SunkenCiv
Let me see, the UN says the hacking was similar to Watergate. OK, let's examine that. Conjecture has it the white house orchestrated the break in to find details about a prostitution ring being run out of that office. It was unsuccessful in finding the details but managed to get inside perhaps twice being caught on the second endeavor. On this “hacking” they got in and got the details. In my mind, it was better than watergate, they found the whores.
32 posted on 12/06/2009 1:46:32 PM PST by Mouton
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To: Sunshine Sister

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.


33 posted on 12/06/2009 1:46:32 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: All
I'm keeping a running file ( always updated ) on this fraud and scandal:

"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.

34 posted on 12/06/2009 1:50:38 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: DollyCali; FrPR; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Delacon; Thunder90; Entrepreneur; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

35 posted on 12/06/2009 2:06:05 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: neverdem
"...were probably paid to do it by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit."

By chance, is anyone aware of how I could donate money to have other AGW "scientists" computers hacked?

36 posted on 12/06/2009 2:09:39 PM PST by Red Dog #1
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To: neverdem
... computer hackers who stole thousands of e-mails were probably paid to do it by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit.

PROBABLY???

You mean you don't know?

Sacre bleu, Jean-Paul. How can we find out for sure?

37 posted on 12/06/2009 2:15:12 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: neverdem
"It's very common for hackers in Russia to be paid for their services.

Oh?

And how do you know this, c'est vous plais?

38 posted on 12/06/2009 2:16:08 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: adorno

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!


39 posted on 12/06/2009 2:23:20 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: American Constitutionalist
0bama is simply Jim Jones with a Teleprompter...
40 posted on 12/06/2009 2:31:47 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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