Posted on 12/06/2009 10:22:11 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind the leaking of the notorious British ‘Climategate’ emails which threaten to undermine tomorrow’s Copenhagen global warming summit.
An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the explosive hacked emails from the University of East Anglia were leaked via a small web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia.
The leaks scandal has left the scientific community in disarray after claims that key climate change data was manipulated in the run-up to the climate change summit of world leaders.
The row erupted when hundreds of messages between scientists at the university’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and their colleagues around the world were placed on the internet along with other documents.
The CRU is internationally recognised as one of the most important sources of information on the rise in global temperatures.
Its data is relied on by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body which co-ordinates the world response to climate change.
But now the CRU’s findings are under suspicion.
The leaked emails appear to show that CRU director Professor Phil Jones and colleagues attempted to manipulate the figures and hide their raw data from researchers with opposing views.
Prof Jones has stepped aside from his post while claims are investigated that he wanted certain papers excluded from the United Nations’ next major assessment of climate science.
Russia – one of the world’s largest producers and users of oil and gas – has a vested interest in opposing sweeping new agreements to cut emissions, which will be discussed by world leaders in Copenhagen tomorrow.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
ping
The Russian intelligence services are good for two things:
1) Killing Islamic terrorists.
2) Leaking climate scaremonger email.
If I were these scientists, I’d go out of my way to avoid people with umbrellas and tell waiters, “No polonium in my salad, please.”
It doesn’t make sense for the Russians to cut us a break when we’re on the verge of castrating ourselves economically. I can see a whistle blower doing that as misdirection.
I really don’t understand all this crap about WHO leaked the emails. THE EMAILS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. “Global warming” is a hoax and a scam and the warmers like Algore and his comrade perps in the U.N. are criminals, crooks and thieves.
I’d like to see Boxer try to have them arrested.
The Russkies, having successfully exported Communism to the West, are becoming the defenders of sanity?1 I think I just saw a pig fly by my window.
The Russians are energy exporters. Their economy would be hurt by the Copenhagen treaty.
Oil and gas are Russia's main exports. They are not cutting us a break, they are looking after their own interests. The last thing they need is a bunch of idot eurotrash slashing use of these fuels.
I see the Daily Mail has never heard of proxy servers...
If it really were the Rooskies, would they have sent the stuff to the BBC first? I think not...
Mr.Paleo Conservative-I worked hard to be called Senator
Boxer.(snort)
I agree with that statement completely, but unfortunately noone - whether it be a private individual or a DA has seen fit to take the issue to a court. A trial revolving round this issue would be so, so fascinating. I want to see Algore being cross examined.
“I think I just saw a pig fly by my window.”
You’re lucky...I now have a monkey flying around the room...
I believe that somebody certainly spent a fair amount of time sorting through e-mail to get the select ~1000 and docs and data. Somebody had to be on the inside. That a first attempt to leak was to the BBC indicates a lack of media savvy.
Russians may be crazy, but they aren’t stupid.
Pray for America’s Freedom
Posted yesterday. For additional comments, see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401397/posts
Russians sell their petrofuels to Western nations. If the West places an artificial curb on the use of hydrocarbons as fuel, or more likely, hangs pointless new carbon-tariffs on petrofuel, Russia would lose income.
This is the first GOOD thing the Reds have done, since popularizing vodka! (Which was invented by the Poles, I might add.)
Unable to address the substantive issues – its hacks being quite incapable of research or analysis – the media have launched into reams of speculation about the "Climategate" leaks, all based on the single fact that, at the second or third attempt, the "whistleblower" uploaded the data onto a Russian server (webpage header grab above).
The Mail on Sunday, without spending any effort telling its readers what the issue is about, devotes a two-page spread to the most amazing tosh, built on entirely unsupported speculation. It is a classic of its kind.
Not to be outdone, The Times follows in its wake, with: "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."
etc, etc
NB: At the second or third attempt, the "whistleblower" uploaded the data onto a Russian server - yes, the tracks of the Old Bear is all over this and we don't have to worry about the contents of the mails and computer files at all.
(Do I really have to add a "sarcasm tag?)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.