Posted on 12/06/2009 5:48:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
UN officials have likened the theft of e-mails from university climate researchers to the Watergate scandal, after claiming computer hackers were probably paid by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit.
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the theft from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics, but was 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,” he said. “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 the summit, which begins today, that they needed to act fast on emissions. “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.”
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HOPENHAVEN is being derailed -- that's the problem.
These people are complete and total braindead morons. Who and why anyone “hijacked” these emails is irrelevant! IT’S THE CONTENT OF THE EMAILS, STUPID! Geeesh!
They may have been LEAKED to sabotage the summit, which would be further proof that they were in fact leaked by a whistleblower who had seen and heard enough.
Ya think? It took a patriot to produce the “dear in the head light syndrome” they all suffer from. Exposure is the best medicine for them. Let the games begin, who can out do the other, world wide recognition and praise is your reward. The unconvienent truth is thier ailment, jail is thier reward.
I suspect that is correct but I don't know that calling a publication by someone working on the material can be properly termed "hijacked." Some assistant or grad student understood the political implications of Copenhagen and decided he didn't want to live in the world that was to be constructed there.
When did you do that?
How ever it was done, awesome!
Well, if the e-mails hadn’t proven their was duplicity involved, there wouldn’t be any problem about the timing of their release.
....which worked very nicely.....
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the theft from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics, but was 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.
hey dope- if you're lying about the numbers and purposely withholding info to make people believe in your BS agenda then guess what??? there is no "science" of man-made climate change- it was all a lie!!
Kinda like Galileo circulating the idea that the earth revolved around the sun.
Can’t have that!
Yes, thermodynamic concepts are irrelevant as well. Moving into the 21st century requires retrograding into the 19th.
YOU ARE THE SCANDAL! YOU ARE THE NEW FLAT EARTH SOCIETY!!
When this first happened, the first things I thought about as a lot of us did was: Watergate and the Flat Earthers.
And these a-holes like Gordon Brown have the nerve to have called the skeptics the Flat Earthers, and now the Whistle blowers are Whistle-gate.
YOU’RE THE SCANDAL, YOU’RE THE JUNK SCIENCE!!!
somebody has to have that birth certificate by now....
Climate Change Criminal Conspiracy Continues Controlled Chaos
I hate to tell all these mushed-mouth media types but I already have my mind set. I don’t have to say it because Alex Jones says it better than me. This is why I love Alex Jones in 3:52= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3fcn6yctjA
One of the many things that wins wars and ends other conflicts.
One of the many things that wins wars and ends other conflicts.
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