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| Hacked climate emails called a "smear campaign" |
| 2009-11-26 |
| Three leading scientists who on Tuesday released a report documenting the accelerating pace of climate change said the scandal that erupted last week over hacked emails from climate scientists is nothing more than a "smear campaign" aimed at sabotaging December climate talks in Copenhagen. "We're facing an effort by special interests who are trying to confuse the public," said Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a lead author of the UN IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Dissenters see action to slow global warming as "a threat," he said. The comments were made in a conference call for reporters. The scientists--Somerville, Michael Mann of Penn State and Eric Steig of University of Washington--were supposed to be discussing their new report, the Copenhagen Diagnosis, a dismal update of the UN IPCC's 2007 climate data by 26 scientists from eight nations. Instead they spent much of the time diffusing the hacker controversy, known in the media as "Climate Gate." The scandal began on November 20, when an unknown hacker stole at least 169 megabytes of emails from computers at the prominent Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia and put them online for the world to see. CRU is considered one of the world's leading institutions concerned with human-caused global warming. The leaked emails contain private correspondence on climate science dating back to 1996. Skeptics of global warming say these messages are filled with evidence of manipulated data from lead authors of the UN's highly influential IPCC reports. U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), a climate skeptic, said he would launch an inquiry into UN climate change research in response. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 How can you have "smear campaign" based on gossip spread by some silly bloggers and FOX unNews? The Real Media have not even mentioned the CRU data theft occurred. So what's the campaign? Little paranoid are these climate scientists? |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins**** 2009-11-26 18:52 |
| #11 Frank G, Not just New Zealand data which has been gamed, Australian data has also been queered. Just as well that it has been exposed as the Liberals are in meltdown over ETS now before parliament. |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-11-26 11:58 |
| #10 Boy's, time to switch to the "Fake, but Accurate" plan... Trust me on this... |
| Posted by: Dan Rathers PR Firm 2009-11-26 11:04 |
| #9 see below |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-26 09:35 |
| #8 at AOSHQ they've got a post of a similar AGW data hoax bust |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-26 09:35 |
| #7 Your such a Polliana, Angleton 9. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-11-26 09:15 |
| #6 Richard Somerville - the Bernie Madoff of "Climate Science" |
| Posted by: Omump Bucket7542 2009-11-26 08:38 |
| #5 The only "smearing" going on, is the poop these eco-facists are "smearing" around with the reports, white papers, and other sorts of baloney, which have now been shown to be bogus. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2009-11-26 07:20 |
| #4 It WILL get worse. Toward the end we get to stand on the toilet seat with both boots while their face is in the bowl. You wont hear them screaming for the noise their legs make thrashing around on the tiles. |
| Posted by: Angleton 9 2009-11-26 03:24 |
| #3 Why are you suprised crosspatch? After all quoting the Quaran and other holy Islamic texts has been classifed as 'Hate Racist Speech' against Muslims. Why wouldn't quoting their own email be considered a 'Smear Campaign'? Its the liberal mindset. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-11-26 01:08 |
| #2 I find it interesting to note that the exposure of their own words becomes a "smear". Usually a "smear" campaign is when someone else says things that are damaging. In this case any "smear" campaign would be originating from within the CRU of UEA. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2009-11-26 00:51 |
| #1 If it's a smear campaign, then they best hunker down for at least the next six months. That is IMO how long it will take for the enormity of the scam perpetrated to be fully understood and reported. And as the press is about to find out, the damaging stuff is in the computer data, now only just starting to be analyzed. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-11-26 00:31 |