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Trove of New Climategate Emails Released

Communications offer look at scientists facing skepticism

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 23, 2011 7:49 AM CST

(Newser) – Soon after it was debunked, Climategate is back—on the eve of new UN talks seeking a global deal on climate change. A hacker has unveiled a new batch of some 5,000 emails from the same trove of University of East Anglia files initially hacked, the Washington Post reports. The newly-released emails—whose authenticity hasn’t been confirmed—don’t contain new material on climate research itself, but they give an inside look at scientists battling climate skepticism.

UEA says it hasn’t found “evidence of a recent breach of our systems,” but notes that the release “appears to be a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy” ahead of the UN talks. Scientists shrug off the new release. When the emails were written, “no one was thinking, ‘What if these get stolen and get taken out of context—how will they sound?’” notes a scientist who was quoted in the communication. An astronomer at Discover calls it "more ado about nothing." But a Republican congressman says the emails warrant an investigation.

In this Tuesday July 17, 2007 file photo, an iceberg melts in Kulusuk Bay, eastern Greenland.
In this Tuesday July 17, 2007 file photo, an iceberg melts in Kulusuk Bay, eastern Greenland.   (AP Photo/John McConnico)
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Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. - British climate official to UEA

I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run. - British climate official

Getting people we know and trust is vital. - Former UEA climate director Phil Jones on selecting a tornado panel

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COMMENTS
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hamsammichs
Nov 26, 2011 1:35 AM CST
Global warming has nothing to do with science, but everything to do with money and politics. How sad.
tman3220
Nov 23, 2011 8:14 PM CST
This stuff is just as stupid and irrelevant as our current president.......... sheesh....... HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!!!!
SilenceDogood
Nov 23, 2011 6:32 PM CST
Even if we ignore the skewed data; even if we ignore the Al Gore absence of common sense; even if we ignore how much these scientist want to acquire “grants” to study global warming; We still need to understand why the Middle Age Warming period occurred and why the Little Ice Age occurred. If we cannot answer these recent historically documented climatological events then we have no business postulating that the current event is man made.

 
climate change • climate skeptics • Climategate • University of East Anglia

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