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November 22nd, 2009

East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off

Posted by Harry Fuller @ 8:56 pm

Categories: Blogroll, Europe, Russia, air pollution, climate change, environmental health, global warming, law & politics, research

Tags: Scientist, Global Warming, E-mail, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

One American climate scientist says the hacked documents from the University of East Anglia are being used for propaganda, that only those hurting global warming scientists were released. The scientist found over 100 of his own emails posted online and said he was appalled. He went on to say the emails were posted out of context and some stolen material was not released.

The scientist also pointed out that the Copenhagen climate conference begins in two weeks.

Meanwhile global warming skeptics are having a fine time. The “Daily Mail” has this column on the stolen emails “…now come these leaked emails showing that the very scientists who were responsible for championing the hockey stick - all at the heart of the IPCC establishment - have been regularly discussing how the evidence could be manipulated to promote their cause.”

A right-wing American paper claims
, “A partial review of the hacked material suggests there was an effort at East Anglia, which houses an important center of global climate research, to shut out dissenters and their points of view.”

Clearly this is going to be grist for much future name-calling and fear mongering. Is global warming threatening the future of civilization or is it just the figment of a global warming conspiracy?

Here are the three previous blogs on the East Anglia hacking:
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Harry FullerA newsman since 1969, Harry Fuller has worked for CBS, ABC, CNBC Europe, CNET and was founding news director at TechTV. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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RE: East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off
The real story is this. Everybody lies. We tell lies that have
been perpetrated out of the mouths of others, to support
or undermine our own assumptions. One really must think
about thi... (Read the rest)
Posted by: jjstevens Posted on: 12/07/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
I'm going with the "Shows why all science e-mails should be public"  Lerianis10 | 11/22/09
I say then be pro-active...  TripleII | 11/22/09
Excellent idea  rapson | 11/23/09
Spot on! nt  Richard Flude | 11/23/09
At the time of this post  rikasa | 11/23/09
Sounds to me like they need...  bjbrock | 11/23/09
It's funny how hacking email has now become justified  zmud | 11/23/09
Serves them right.  osreinstall | 11/23/09
RE: East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off  Bodazapha | 11/23/09
Are you kidding  bsit@... | 11/23/09
I've refused to believe word one from them.  devlin_X | 11/23/09
Sorry like or not  mcp123 | 11/23/09
Not the only debate  rapson | 11/23/09
An Intelligent Question!  sboverie@... | 11/23/09
You are in "denial"; and you've fallen for their tactics...  adornoe@... | 11/23/09
Agree, for the most part. Except this:  clfitz | 11/23/09
The land between Virginia and S. American could easily handle the migration  adornoe@... | 11/27/09
Not the only debate  Richard Flude | 11/23/09
You obviously haven't read the emails  magash@... | 11/29/09
RE: East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off  philwhite42@... | 11/23/09
Mr White's afraid of Reds?  john.foggitt@... | 11/23/09
Reds  philwhite42@... | 11/23/09
We should dema full disclosure of the science; pro and con  adornoe@... | 11/23/09
Long term - geological long term it will make littel difference  e.russell@... | 11/23/09
Science Processes  sboverie@... | 11/23/09
Agreed, except...  clfitz | 11/23/09
Information  sboverie@... | 11/23/09
Ensure the peers agree with you  Richard Flude | 11/23/09
Politics  sboverie@... | 11/23/09
You should be sceptical  Richard Flude | 11/23/09
Interesting, but what is your point?  sboverie@... | 11/23/09
Actually...  gregoryk@... | 11/23/09
What is the limit?  sboverie@... | 11/24/09
One reason why what CRU did was so evil!  magash@... | 11/29/09
hacked off or not  ca1ic0cat | 11/23/09
RE: East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off  bsit@... | 11/23/09
RE: bsit post on "East Anglia:..."  a.berg | 11/24/09
Wah wah, Harry. So global warming hacks are shown with their pants down...  Selvarin | 11/25/09
"A right-wing American paper ...." ?? Jeez Harry.  PrinceUnderwood | 12/01/09
RE: East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off  jjstevens | 12/07/09

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