Just when you thought commentary on
the CRU hacked emails could not get any more absurd, along comes National Post columnist and «environmentalist» Lawrence Solomon to up the ante.
[DC: I will comment on various aspects of
the CRU hacked emails at some point.
Not exact matches
Although the book came out very shortly after the
CRU hack, with hardly sufficient time to investigate the truth, the temptation to use the
emails for propaganda purposes was irresistible.
The
CRU hacker
hacked personal
emails, while Peter Gleick only got organizational documents.
I can confidently predict that of the thousands of «sceptics» who made great play of the
CRU email hack, no more than a handful will change their views, either on the substantive issue or on the credibility of people like Carter and institutions like Heartland, over this.
Nearly 300 of the
hacked emails were between
CRU and NOAA scientists, and it was those that were investigated by the OIG in this report.
Marc Morano at Climatedepot.com first linked to Andrew Bolt's account with the headline: «Update: «
CRU director admits
emails seem to be genuine» — Climatic Research Unit
Hacked?
That the server was
hacked and the
emails made public was at least partly due to the fact that legitimate requests for the raw temperature data used by the
CRU were repeatedly refused.
You claim claim that the illegally
hacked and published
CRU emails demonstrated proof of fraud.
I'm stunned to see you resorting to a smear in your attempt to address the argument I made about insufficient context in the
hacked CRU emails, Burt.
I've noticed that some of the disinformation being spread about the
CRU hack (called Swifthack or Climategate — lots of info here) is starting to creep into reports on climate change on the ABC, for example this morning some radio reports regarding the WMO's finding that the last decade has been the hottest on record has been qualified by mentions of the
hack, when there is no credible reason to believe that the leaked
emails indicate a problem with the instrumental record — I note that the online version of the story doesn't do this though).
Two of the scientists involved in «Climategate» — the e-mail
hacking incident at the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) of the University of East Anglia, UK — have been
emailed death threats since the contents of their private e-mails were leaked to the world.
Nonetheless, warmistas such as DeSmog Blog, which published the purloined Heartland documents, applaud Gleick as a whistle blower, and stubbornly insist the fake strategy memo isgenuine, loudly denounced Climategate as the work of an «illegal
hack» of
emails «stolen» from the
CRU server.
This development, along with new reports of breakins and other attacks at the University of Victoria, should finally lay to rest the baseless rumour that the
hacked email archive was assembled at
CRU as part of a contingent FOI response and released by an inside whistleblower, a canard that was started by — wait for it — none other than Steve McIntyre himself!
So I would argue that this document leak is very different than the
CRU email hack, however, many of the lessons in context (or lack thereof) learned after the
CRU hack need to be applied here.
Also, there is no public information to prove that the
CRU emails were
hacked.
It's an interesting question whether the same moral concerns that made the
CRU email hacking wrong apply here.
The
emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition.
When the
hacked CRU emails appeared in 2009, climate skeptics tried to invert reality, claiming that several widely - published climate scientists had conspired to subvert peer review.
So you do admit that the
hacking and dissemination of the
CRU emails was criminal activity and is a perfectly legitimate target for investigation.
Incidentally how about the balance of reporting of the
Email hack at the
CRU?
The latest and thankfully last review of the
emails hacked from the climatic research unit (
CRU) at the University of East Anglia will do nothing to dam the tide of filth and fury (2).
The Daily Caller blog yesterday contained an inaccurate story regarding a correspondence that was part of the
emails hacked from East Anglia University Climate Research Unit (
CRU) in November 2009.
The Guardian's Tech guy Charles Arthur did a forensic analysis of the
hacked emails, and produced a «concordance» of search terms that the hackers used when they searched
CRU's archives for the
emails they wanted.
Typically they report on various «allegations», such as these against the IPCC, similar to reporting that the
CRU email hack lead to «allegations of data manipulation».
Is there some reason you refer to the
CRU email incident as a
hack?
The
emails I deleted while a university employee are the correspondence I had with Dr. Briffa of
CRU regarding the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, all of which have been in the public domain since the
CRU hack in November 2009.
Just to put this in it's ironic context — ironic because it originated from a blatantly illegal
hack by the so called «Anonymous» and is being used by the very same people, including the Guardian and the New York Times, who disdained the «dirty pilfered»
emails of
CRU — that on the 6 - 7 Febuary HGBary Federal and HGBary, internet security companies, were
hacked by «Anonymous» and their
email accounts dumped.
Some how Jeff Id while Deer hunting was able to
hack through all the firewalls, trawl through every server and computer at
CRU, only pull out ones dealing with Climate (did you notice there was no really «private» type
emails such as hey Jim how is the Kids I'll be in NY next week lets get together and have a few), then find the one
email where a password to RC was in them, use it to upload the files, link it to CA with a title that said «A miracle occurred», started lurking to see what would happen, saw RC pulled down, saw WUWT embargo the files and then uploaded the files to a Russian Proxy Server and then linked to someone else's blog before linking to his own and for some reason a couple of days before that sent some of the
emails to a BBC reporter to find out if they were really from him.