Global warming dealt a blow with climate science trickery

The computer network at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) has been hacked and files stolen and published, revealing emails between leading climate scientists discussing the manipulation of graphs so as to promote consensus that the world’s atmospheric temperatures are rising radically.

According to initial reports by TGIF Newspaper and What’s Up With That blog, hundreds of emails and documents where made available from a FTP site on a Russian server and accompanied by the statement:

“We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps. We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents”

While the hacker remains anonymous, the head of the CRU Dr Phillip Jones has confirmed in an interview with TGIF Newspaper that a breach of security had taken place and that a large quantity of files had been stolen. When asked to explain some of his own emails in the leak, Dr Jones said he had no idea what he meant by using words like “hide and decline” as they were made in the context of a discussion taking place 10 years ago.

The release of the documents comes just weeks before a big climate-change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, meant to lay the groundwork for a new global treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change.

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