ClimateGate - The Biggest Scandle in Science?

It might be the case that global warming is a big bad fabricated lie.

"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."

The hacked file is online and you can find more info from this article. Specially look at the extracts from the emails, well, I am not sure if they are authentic, but if they are...

From Phil Jones (modification of data to hide unwanted results):

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

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