Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute

[arcadian]

I received one of these emails in my Facebook feed, via none other than Eric Cantor, it was a scan of the document which was presented as a "photo" and Eric Cantor had been tagged in the photo. There is no low to which the Right is willing to descend. Looks like Cantor removed the tag, but it's still a dastardly trick, the perpetrator knew that Cantor would probably have close to the 5000 friend Facebook limit and that most of those people would be right-wing sheep.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html?_r=1

Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

The e-mail messages, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views. Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.

In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical “trick” in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to climate skeptics as “idiots.”

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