Posted on 12/05/2009 11:44:48 PM PST by Schnucki
Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind the leaking of the notorious British Climategate emails which threaten to undermine tomorrows 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 universitys 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 CRUs 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 worlds 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.
Russia believes current rules are stacked against it, and has threatened to pull the plug on Copenhagen without concessions to Kremlin concerns.
The Mail on Sunday understands that the hundreds
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
(Sound of grey_whiskers purring.)
Cheers!
“The leaks scandal has left the scientific community in disarray...”
No, it hasn’t. Just the AGW phonies.
Please do not continue any excerpted articles in your responses. Your post will now have to be removed.
The recently-resigned Phil Jones coordinated with A LOT of researchers:
Oh the irony.
Makes you wonder what OTHER information the Russians have and are ready to leak. Obama and the Dems in Congress are renown for their blackmailing of others ... I bet their ox is about to be Gored. |
But just the thought that this is the case is probably boosting the sales of Depends wherever prominent global researchers dwell.
I apologize; I should have checked first before I posted.
Well, that explains a lot - - Siberia would have no problem with "global warming", now would it?
"Emalis" (snicker)
It’s ironic that the Norfolk police and Scotland Yard, along with (possibly) Britains intelligence agencies (M15 and M16), are conducting a criminal probe to try to uncover the hacker, yet Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and the rest of the fraudsters remain free and unindicted.
I hope the polar bears don’t freeze solid! lol
Wouldn't that be ironic. If so then my money is that Putin has an angle because I very much doubt he'd knowing allow it without something to gain.
Maybe they’ll bring it to Copenhagen with them. Drop a stack of papers as big as health care reform on the table and leave.
Bump.
I want to keep track of that excellent chart!
OK, very exciting, but let’s just return to Earth for a while. First of all remember that this is the Daily Mail (phhhhp).
And then let us remember that there are still three possibilities how these mails and computer files ended up in the public domain:
A. A whistleblower
B. A hack attack
C. The folder made ready for a FOI judgement accidentally placed on a public server
“C” is the least talked about possibility, but considering the inept handling of computer code, the inability of finding the right side up in cited data, the erroneous use of statistical methods, etc, etc by these same people, who in his right mind would bet against someone in that organization committing a total F*** U* ?
And finally, if you had got hold of these data (in one way or another) where would you post them to maximize the likelihood of remaining anonymous?
Yeah, the KGB, FSB, Putin-plot story makes great reading, but Occam’s razor it is not.
When Useful Idiots are no longer useful, they are after all, just idiots.
Time to push the reset button!
OT???
http://blog.kievukraine.info/2005/08/obama-part-of-group-locked-up-at.html
Obama part of group locked up at Russian airport // U.S. delegation stripped of passports as guards demand to inspect plane
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, August 29, 2005
Author: Lynn Sweet
WASHINGTON Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) were not allowed to leave a Russian airport Sunday and were locked in a room briefly.
The incident prevented their departure for about three hours, but Obama told the Sun-Times it ended up not being a very big deal.
The senators had their passports seized by local officials at an airport in Perm. Obama said the officials demanded, unsuccessfully, to inspect the DC-9 military aircraft being used by the congressional delegation for the trip.
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Although he was on a first-time diplomatic mission, Obama has traveled extensively, spending part of his youth in Indonesia and visiting Kenya, where his father was born. He noted that as a back- packing college student he had a lot less leverage than this time.
Obama , a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Lugar, its chairman, left Wednesday for a trip to inspect sites where nuclear and biological weapons are slated to be destroyed in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. On Sunday, the U.S. group was scheduled to fly from Perm to Kiev, Ukraine. But border guards wanted proof that the groups aircraft which Obama said looked like a mini-Air Force One was really an official U.S. government plane, which would be exempt from an inspection.
Robert Gibbs, Obama s spokesman traveling with him, said in an e-mail that the border guards took our passports and demanded to inspect our aircraft, which we refused. We were moved to a room to wait.
At one point they were demanding to inspect virtually everything, including the gifts their representatives at the missile facility had given us. The border guard said they were acting on the authority of the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/russian-sex-tape-smear-american-diplomat/story?id=8651311
U.S. Protests Russian ‘Sex Tape’ Used to Smear American Diplomat
Sex, Lies and Videotape in Moscow; Cold War Tactics Merge with the Internet
By MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS
Brian Ross Investigative Unit
Sept. 23, 2009
EXCERPT
American officials say the Russian intelligence agency that replaced the KGB, the Federal Security Service (FSB), produced the video in an attempt to either recruit or discredit the diplomat, Brendan Kyle Hatcher, a 34-year-old married State Department employee who serves as a liaison with religious and human rights groups in Russia.
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