Saturday, November 21, 2009

ClimateGate: Hackers post data, expose global warming fraudsters

Evidently, the UK's University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit has been hacked and the data leaked / posted on the Interwebs.

From Karl Denninger: "Global Warming" SCAM - Hack/Leak FLASH:
Apparently a "Global Climate Center" was hacked and the contents have been posted to the Internet. A ZIP file exceeding 60MB and containing a huge number of emails and other documents has been posted worldwide.

Original speculation as to whether the files posted were legitimate or some sort of spoof appears to now be confirmed as legitimate:
“It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”

I have not had time to read all of the material yet (there are over a thousand files involved!) but what I have skimmed looks VERY damning. Contained within the documents are what appear to be admissions of intentional tampering with data as well as intentional falsification of results to "show" man-made global warming. [emphasis in original]...


And another link from Watts Up With That?: Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released

The Anchoress: There has always been weather

Hotair's Ed Morrissey: Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud?:
Controversy has exploded onto the Internet after a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK had its e-mail system hacked and the data published on line. The director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit confirmed that the e-mails are genuine — and Australian publication Investigate and the Australian Herald-Sun report that those e-mails expose a conspiracy to hide detrimental information from the public that argues against global warming [emphasis added] ...


And ShrinkWrapped: AGW [Anthropogenic Global Warming] Fraud?:
It will take time for the "skeptics" (who thankfully were never successfully silenced by the AGWers who likened skeptics to Holocaust deniers and wanted to make AGW denial a crime against humanity) to go through all the files but what has already shown up is damning.

When scientists refuse to release their raw data, they short circuit the workings of the scientific method which looks for independent confirmation of hypotheses in order to avoid unconscious bias and the even more egregious fraud. The AGW academia-governmental complex is an industry that has siphoned off many, many billions of dollars in grants; it has spawned an entire parasitic industry devoted to managing and minimizing our Carbon output; it has threatened to cripple the global economy and return us to pre-industrial subsistence while empowering non-accountable bureaucrats in their attempt to gain never before imagined power over every human on the planet. How fitting that this construct which has been seized upon by the radical environmentalist left may well turn out to have been constructed upon a fraud. ...


What? You didn't hear all about the exposing of the global warming fraud on the nightly news? In the front page of your local Leftstream media fishwrap masquerading as a newspaper? Well, don't hold your breath, because it doesn't fit the Leftist elites' narrative.

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