You may have read that a prestigious climate research organization (the CRU) out of the University of East Anglia in England was attacked by "hackers" and had a significant volume of emails between the scientists leaked to some climate change denial blogs.
The theft was discovered when the hackers attempted to sabotage realclimate.org to post the emails. This was thwarted, so the thieves evidently decided to send the emails to some friendly bloggers who eagerly posted them. RealClimate provides the definitive rebuttal to the farcical claims of the deniers:
More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to 'get rid of the MWP', no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though.
We're talking about leading climatologists talking behind the scenes in private emails, and somehow they never admit to any of the conspiratorial claims of the deniers all these years. Of course this means the deniers shout "see, this proves what they've been saying all along!"
Today, the story took a new twist as the attack shifted to New Zealand's government climate research group, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (or NIWA, and their response is found at that link) for "manipulating" some data which demonstrates the steady warming curve observed in New Zealand over the past 100 years. This attack is sourced to New Zealand's "Climate Science Coalition" (no link for them), which as Deltoid notes, "(Note: New Zealand Climate Science Coalition contains no actual climate scientists.)"
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