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Fallout From Hacked Climate Change Emails Intensifies

Scientists worry backstabbing could derail emissions agreement

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 24, 2009 9:22 AM CST

(Newser) – The planet-sized rift between climate scientists skeptical about man-made global warming and the rest of the field has been getting even wider this week as the fallout from last week's hacked emails continues. Some experts fear that the emails—in which climate scientists insult skeptics and discuss ways to block dissenting points of view—could hurt the chances of an agreement on cutting emissions, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Evidence of efforts to silence opposition is "what everyone feared," one scientist discussed negatively in the emails says. Other scientists say that while the emails will embarrass the scientists involved, they're not a game-changer in the climate debate. "It shows that the process of science is not always pristine," the director of the Yale Project on Climate Change tells Reuters. "But there's no smoking gun in the emails from what I've seen."

Aviation Maintenance Tech 2 John Ferrari looks out of the back of a Coast Guard C-130 as he surveys the ice off of the coast of Barrow, Alaska, during a surveillance flight to the Arctic.
Aviation Maintenance Tech 2 John Ferrari looks out of the back of a Coast Guard C-130 as he surveys the ice off of the coast of Barrow, Alaska, during a surveillance flight to the Arctic.   (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
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It has become increasingly difficult for anyone who does not view global warming as an end-of-the-world issue to publish papers. This isn't questionable practice, this is unethical.
- Pat Michaels, climate scientist at
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jimw428
Nov 25, 2009 12:53 PM CST
Way too many liars and powerful people, protecting way too many rice bowls, for this climate change farce to be put right
Pragmaticrealism
Nov 25, 2009 12:40 PM CST
Really?? REALLY?????? """""""Can there only be negative outcomes if the globe warms up a few degrees? Impossible!""""""" CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LOSS OF 50% OF POTABLE WATER WORLDWIDE, THE LOSS OF 20% OF ALL COASTAL CITIES WORLDWIDE, THE LOSS OF PERHAPS 60-90% OF ALL SPECIES OF ANIMAL, WORLDWIDE? can you? Well, if you can imagine it, I guarantee you can't comprehend or appreciate it, because that would require a mind that grasps the interconnectivity and interdependence of all things seen and unseen.
Pragmaticrealism
Nov 25, 2009 12:32 PM CST
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