Reported by that bastion of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy called the New York Times!
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics
Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
The e-mails, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views.
This can give a whole new meaning to the phrase “scientific cooperation”!
Some skeptics asserted Friday that the correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. “This is not a smoking gun, this is a mushroom cloud,†said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents.
There’s good reason why the human caused Glowbull Warming proposition can be considered “junk science”.
What else is the big flap about, aside from that little thing about “scientific integrity”? Like the movie said: follow the money!
From the site that started this whole thing by having the files dumped to it:
Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold
…a summary of the 62 MB of data is – personal email correspondences between some of the major players Santer, Briffa, Mann, Osborne, Wahl. Data and code, the data SteveM and I will enjoy but I can’t load CA now. The code or a version of it for HadCRUT was released also. The tone of the emails is quite interesting Steve McIntyre is the focus of much of them but there are quite a few references to obstruction and making things difficult for the ’skeptics’. There are also budgetary items and grant monies- you wouldn’t believe how much money these boys play with.
There are several comments about scientists wanting to hide their environmentalist views to promote the best results. Also, some about people being happy with the death of skeptics as well as a lot of rubbish about the latest Yamal results at CA.
They’re wisely currently considering possible legal ramifications of all this, but in any event it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
It will be interesting to see if the MSM decides to try to salvage its eroding audience by reporting the truth in a story that it absolutely cannot contain (it’s NEWS folks) and is beginning to be reported across the internet AND in international news reports.
THIS IS A SMOKING GUN that cannot be buried, regardless of the ideology of the medias ownership.
If this is NOT widely reported and acknowledged by the “MSM” their credibility (already in tatters) can easily suffer the killing blow that this news SHOULD deliver to the proponents of AGW.
Of course, if they report it, they will “spin” for all they’re worth, but that won’t matter as much as if they foolishly believe they can still “bury the news” based on their “editorial” decisions.