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Are supporters of AGW in panic mode:

Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails
Friday , November 20, 2009

Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British climate research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, including one with a mysterious reference to a plan to "hide the decline" in data about temperatures.

The Internet is abuzz about the leaked data from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (commonly called Hadley CRU), which has acknowledged the leak of 61MB of confidential data.

Climate change skeptics describe the leaked data as a "smoking gun," evidence of collusion among climatologists and manipulation of data to support the widely held view that climate change is caused by the actions of mankind. The files were reportedly released on a Russian file-serve by an anonymous poster calling himself "FOIA."

In an exclusive interview in Investigate magazine's TGIF Edition, Phil Jones, the head of the Hadley CRU, confirmed that the leaked data is real.

"It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago," he told the magazine, noting that the center has yet to contact the police about the data breach.

TGIF Edition asked Jones about the controversial "hide the decline" comment from an e-mail he wrote in 1999. He told the magazine that there was no intention to mislead, but he had "no idea" what he meant by those words.

"That was an e-mail from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago?" he said.

The Telegraph has posted some of the more scathing excerpts from these emails, which the newspaper suggests points to manipulation of evidence and private doubts about the reality of global warming, though the much of the scientific language in the e-mails is esoteric and hard to interpret.

But one notable e-mail clearly describes how to squeeze dissenting scientists from the peer review process:

"I think we have to stop considering Climate Research as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?"
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AGW supporters lying about recent climate data..... - 20/11/2009 08:02:32 PM 525 Views
wait, do we have any context around that comment? - 20/11/2009 11:53:54 PM 327 Views
Why should we believe this? - 23/11/2009 06:46:19 PM 377 Views
The scientific community has not changed its mind. - 21/11/2009 12:13:29 AM 363 Views
Tssk, tssk, making assumptions about "my lifestyle"..... - 21/11/2009 12:45:07 AM 337 Views
even i think "global warming" is bunk - 21/11/2009 12:59:03 AM 350 Views
This is why you should be in physics. - 21/11/2009 01:45:01 AM 394 Views
Re: even i think "global warming" is bunk - 21/11/2009 11:26:13 PM 394 Views
I made no assumptions about your lifestyle, I was speaking about your ideology. *NM* - 21/11/2009 11:22:44 PM 132 Views
Then perhaps you should have typed "ideology" instead of "lifestyle" - 22/11/2009 12:39:23 AM 314 Views
he admits it!! LOL - 23/11/2009 06:52:09 PM 361 Views
Sometimes I think we all do that to some extent. - 21/11/2009 02:03:36 AM 350 Views
Heh, I think you're the only person that uses that smiley. *NM* - 21/11/2009 02:01:41 AM 137 Views
HA! I love those thumbs up/down smileys! They need to be used more! *NM* - 22/11/2009 12:40:43 AM 132 Views

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