[url="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-24/science/30436927_1_climate-change-climate-conference-climategate"]Leaked emails trigger ââ¬ËClimategate 2.0ââ¬â¢[/url] : TOI, Nov 24, 2011
Quote:The 'Climategate' dispute over global warming science was reignited on Tuesday when thousands more hacked emails from climate researchers , some of them potentially damaging, were released online on the eve of a vital UN climate conference.The private messages between senior scientists in Britain and America, hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA), were released just five days before nearly 200 countries meet at Durban, South Africa , in a crucial bid to agree to a new international global warming treaty to replace the current Kyoto protocol, which runs out next year.
The emails' release was widely seen as an effort to destabilize the Durban meeting, as they were part of the same batch of emails originally hacked from the CRU's computers in November 2009 and released in a bid to damage [color="#9932cc"]{ yeah right! "damage", and not "letting the cat out of the bag" }[/color] the UN climate conference at Copenhagen the following month.
The November 2009 hacking, which became known as 'Climategate' and is still being investigated by the police, was seized by climate sceptics who said the emails showed researchers manipulating data to support the theory that global warming was man-made and obstructing requests for information.
A series of reviews in Britain and the US [color="#9932cc"]{ funded by global warming scare mongers, like Al Goreida!! }[/color] later cleared researchers of any scientific impropriety and said the affair had not undermined the scientific basis of global warming, although the university was criticized for its failure to be sufficiently open and respond properly to freedom-of-information requests. Some of the emails did not show scientists in the best of lights and are likely to have contributed to a growth in climate scepticism [color="#9932cc"]{ aka, the global warming fraud}[/color] .
In Tuesday's release, a compressed zip file containing more than 5,000 further, hitherto unseen emails was suddenly made available to download on a Russian server - as had happened in 2009 - and links to the file were posted on climate-sceptic blogs.
This time those responsible, calling themselves FOIA, added a message appearing to equate fighting climate change with abandoning the fight against poverty. The hacker then selected and marked 88 emails under 10 headings, ranging from references to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the issue of freedomof-information requests. As of last night, UEA could not officially confirm that the emails were genuine, but the university said they had the appearance of being part of the last batch.
The emails, which all date from before 2009, are apparently between some of the most senior figures in climate change research in the UK and the US, led by professor Phil Jones, who was the head of the CRU at the time of the original hacking two years ago and who stood down from his post while the inquiries were carried out. Others mentioned include professor Jonesis CRU colleague Dr Keith Briffa, Dr Peter Thorne of the UK Met office and Sir John Houghton, formerly head of Met office and a leading figure in the IPCC.
Some messages show climate scientists squabbling, politicking, calling each other names and, plotting how to present their information in the best possible light. But climate experts last night asserted that they did nothing to undermine global warming science.