Among the big news making the rounds is that hackers (or crackers, as certain Slashdot pedants insist we differentiate them) have broken into the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, where all sorts of <gratuitous UK slang>boffins</gratuitous UK slang> have been pushing anthropocentric global warming, and the necessity of massive government intervention to combat same, for some time now.
Some who are (like myself) skeptical of AGW are crowing that it’s the smoking gun proving it’s all a fraud:
Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air also thinks they spell fraud.
My take, given that I’ve only read a small number of excerpts for a small number of documents (see below): Embarrassing and suggestive, but far short of a “smoking gun” proving it’s all fraud.
The CRU information doesn’t appear to be up at Wikileaks yet, so here’s a link to a torrent at the Pirate Bay. (Warning: Downloading hacked/leaked/stolen information from the Pirate Bay may not be legal in your jurisdiction. Or moral given your frame of ethics. Plus some off the ads veer toward the NSFW. Be sure to consult with a qualified ethicist, HR Director, or minister before downloading. Or, failing that, The Magic Eight Ball.) I haven’t downloaded it yet, less out of moral qualms than simply because my Torrent-fu is weak…
Updated: An easier download link from the folks at Slashdot.
Tags: Climate Change, Climategate, Global Warming, hacking
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