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Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/20/2009 11:37:38 AM PST by Red Badger
E-mails and documents have been taken from the University of East Anglia.
One of Britain's leading climate-research centres has had more than 1,000 files stolen from its computers and republished on the Internet. The cyber-attack is apparently aimed at damaging the reputations of prominent climate scientists.
The University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Norwich confirmed today that e-mails and documents dating from 1991 to 2009 were illegally copied and subsequently published on an anonymous Russian server.
A link to the Russian server first appeared on 19 November on a relatively obscure climate-sceptic blog. The server was shut down just hours later, but the stolen material had already been distributed elsewhere on the Internet.
"We are aware that information from a server used for research information in one area of the university has been made available on public websites," says Simon Dunford, a spokesman for the University of East Anglia. "This information has been obtained and published without our permission and we took immediate action to remove the server in question from operation."
The volume of the information is too large to "currently confirm that all of this material is genuine", Dunford says, adding that the university will undertake an internal investigation and has already involved the police in the enquiry.
Some climate-sceptic bloggers are already poring over the posted material, which includes e-mails allegedly sent by the CRU's director Phil Jones to fellow climate researchers, including Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Mann is the author of a widely cited assessment of past climate records, known as the hockey-stick graph, which shows a pronounced global-warming trend during the latter part of the twentieth century1.
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"I'm not going to comment on the content of illegally obtained e-mails," says Mann. "However, their theft constitutes serious criminal activity. I'm hoping that the perpetrators will be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows." Jones declined to comment on the matter.
With less than three weeks to go until the start of the United Nations' climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Mann doubts that the timing of the attack is a coincidence. "The deniers will probably do anything they can to distract the public from the reality of the problem [of climate change], and the threat that it poses," he says. "Cherry-picked, out-of-context quotes, stolen from private e-mails, is the best they've got."
How can someone’s reputation be hurt when they are merely telling someone the truth in their emails?
yeah, over 1000 emails, and also the data and code of some of their work. When Steve McIntyre starts going through the data and code (which they have refused to give him for years!), the scam will be totally exposed.
Stay tuned, the fireworks just getting going.
Sure Mikey. Just like a few photos of naked boys found in disconnected folders on your hard drive wouldn't make you a pedo, right?
Wow, it’s real... and the frauds are running like rats.
I hope this portends the unraveling of the “Meltdown Man Hoax.”
Just think, each one of them knows the others are all frauds...............
Publicly funded, shouldn’t all their data be available to us if we wish???
Is this the Onion? Oops, sorry, the Onion wouldn’t write something this ridiculous.
Game’s up, AGW scammers...
Hey, the guys who assassinated the emperor Caligula had their heads cut off--no one thought it wise to leave a couple of regicides hanging around. But that's not to say that everyone wasn't grateful toward them!
I’m not going to comment on the content of illegally obtained e-mails,” says Mann. “However, their theft constitutes serious criminal activity. I’m hoping that the perpetrators will be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows.”
Talk about the Pot calling the Kettle black.
As was pointed out on another thread, the Pentagon Papers were stolen documents as well; and yet the Left reveres that theft. Breaking the law to uncover what the Right is doing wrong is OK. This is why Libs have told us over the years that the Constitution is a living, breathing document and therefore all laws based upon this ever changing document have different meanings at different times of the day. And guess what? Libs, by virtue of their superior, towering intellects (they really are, just ask them) get to decide what the law is from moment to moment.
Science journal Nature finally has to cover it. This can NOT be swept under the rug any more.
Is fraudulent data supported by a gov’t grant a crime?
Its about time the international left had a taste of its own tactics.
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Public funding of falsified science results in Fraud and charges. These Profs are looking at JAILTIME!
I Know! Isn't it wonderful!?
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