Hackers catch scientists on global warming data manipulation
Hackers have tried to prove that global warming researchers are manipulating their data, after stealing sensitive e-mails from one of the UK's leading climate research centres.
More than one thousand e-mails were taken from the University of East Anglia and anonymously posted on a computer server in Russia.
It's claimed that these e-mails show scientists manipulated data to boost their argument that human behaviour is behind global warming.
It has yet to be investigated whether any of the e-mails posted by hackers were falsified.
The e-mails posted by hackers cover some 13 years of correspondence, the earliest one being dated 1996, and the latest – November 2009.
The e-mails have attracted a lot of attention on the internet, and especially the one from Phil Jones, director of the research center, saying:
“I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.”
But the professor whose e-mails are at the centre of the row says his words have been taken out of context.
Another extract from e-mails say: “Considerable errors exist in the representation of both fields – annual temperatures from both observations and proxy records – and must be incorporated. Clearly, there is a spatial bias associated with observations that are biased away from the oceans, high latitudes and high altitudes.”
Some critics of the global warming theory have already called it the biggest conspiracy of the 21st century because a lot of discussions regarding global warming are occurring at all levels of government, including the highest levels.
In particular, in December world leaders will attend a summit in Copenhagen to discuss the issue and try to come to an agreement on reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
Conspiracy of the century? Hackers 'expose' climate change
“Scientists would rather change the facts than their theories” – ex-minister
Hackers claim confidential mails from scientists show that climate change data has been forged. Former minister MP Peter Lilley joined RT to discuss the scandal dubbed Climategate.
“A group of scientists are so loyal to each other that they’re determined to agree with each other even more than they are determined to agree with the facts. So if the facts no longer correspond with their theories, they try and change the facts rather than their theories. And the people who benefit from it are the scientists themselves: they feel morally superior leading a crusade apparently to save the world and they get large grants from the government,” Lilley said.
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