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2009-12-06 Science & Technology

Were Russian security services behind the leak of 'Climategate' emails?

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Posted by tipper 2009-12-06 08:36|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I was just thinking about this. But I had fingered the Chinese, it serves their purposes. The tranzis are going to try to use Copenhagen to enslave the whole world.

Posted by gromky 2009-12-06 09:22|| 2009-12-06 09:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, it certainly wasn't Hansen. That's like the Pope secretly funding Luther.

Posted by Iblis 2009-12-06 12:01|| 2009-12-06 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Iblis: sell that idea to dan brown...

Posted by M. Murcek 2009-12-06 13:04|| 2009-12-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Not very likely (I reckon internal IT). But this is a distraction from the fact the public owned the content of the data released.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-12-06 14:51|| 2009-12-06 14:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I just don't see the Russians or Chinese doing this when they could sit back and watch the West hobble itself if they just laid low. Heck either could commit to any change they wanted, cook the books or just ignore their promises later. The west would still dutifully try to do what they promised and screw their economies.

I think this was an internal leak. Someone knew it was bunk, knew the bunk was being used to justify things that would destroy economies but still couldn't do so publicly for fear of eco-peer pressure.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-12-06 20:49|| 2009-12-06 20:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I think you can probably rule out any of the climatologists. You would think that the millions of dollars invloved in the grants would in Darwinian fashion attract a high enough caliber crank to fiddle data in Minitab with a high enough quailty result to prevent forensic hobbiests from blowing their scam apart.

Ward Churchill would have a better chance at hacking a server than a ~~cosmetolegist~~ climatologist.

Posted by Super Hose 2009-12-06 22:05|| 2009-12-06 22:05|| Front Page Top

#7 No hack. The whistleblower got frustrated when his leak to the BBC went unanswered. Lacking his supposed journo shield, he uploaded it on an obscure Russian server via Tor, and dropped the url on several of the rejectionist blogs.

The file was very carefully assembled by someone who knew exactly what he wanted. I'm thinking it might even have been a secret backup of a bunch of files that were deleted pending FOI.

Posted by KBK 2009-12-06 23:20|| 2009-12-06 23:20|| Front Page Top

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