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Has the manmade climate change myth been exposed?

Skeptics of manmade climate change may very well have found their Holy Grail.  A hacker apparently broke into the computer systems of the UK’s Hadley Climate Research Unit and made off with over 1,000 emails and dozens of files.  The contents of the archive, if proven to be authentic, would expose nothing less than a conspiracy amongst some of the world’s leading climate scientists.

As told on the Climate Change Examiner, the emails detail discussions taking place that include the modification of climate data, preventing access to data by those who disagree, deleting data that does not fit the global warming theory and so much more.  This would be nothing less than one of the biggest scandals to have EVER occurred in science. 

From the Climate Change Examiner
ClimateGate – Climate center’s server hacked revealing documents and emails

Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, suffered a data breach in recent days when a hacker apparently broke into their system and made away with thousands of emails and documents. The stolen data was then posted to a Russian server and has quickly made the rounds among climate skeptics. The documents within the archive, if proven to be authentic, would at best be embarrassing for many prominent climate researchers and at worst, damning.

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The contents of the archive contain documents and email correspondence from a veritable who’s who in climate science. Among those included in the emails are Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, his assistant, Michael Mann of the University of Virginia, Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona, Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies and others.

The emails contain an array of discussions including what appear to be concerted efforts to withhold data. Just as troubling is conversations that allude to potentially manipulating climate data to “hide the decline” of temperatures seen in the last decade.

Complete details and excerpts from some of the emails can be found here.

On the net:

• Tom Nelson: Hadley hacked: Roundup with updates and hundreds of comments 
• Herald-Sun (Australia): Hadley hacked: warmist conspiracy exposed?
• the Air Vent: Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold
• Watts Up With That? :Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released
• Gore Lied: From the hacked Hadley CRU files: IPCC lead author’s private admission: ‘The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.’
• Climate Audit: CRU Correspondence
• University of East Anglia, Climate Research Unit