Climate change scientists have been manipulating and fixing data according to bloggers that are spreading information contained in hundreds of hacked emails.
Bloggers say the 62 mb worth of emails were hacked from the Climate Research Unit (CRU), part of Britain’s University of East Anglia and released onto the Internet.
The file contained data, code, and emails from Phil Jones, director of the CRU, to and from many people, including scientists involved global warming and climate change studies. Jones confirmed to Investigate magazine's TGIF Edition Friday night that his organization had been hacked.
The file containing the emails were packaged and posted on blogs by an anonymous hacker. A list of the emails is on a site called ‘an elegant chaos.’
“We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps,” said the hacker on the global warming skeptic site Air Vent on Friday. “We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and document.” Read more.
Bloggers say the 62 mb worth of emails were hacked from the Climate Research Unit (CRU), part of Britain’s University of East Anglia and released onto the Internet.
The file contained data, code, and emails from Phil Jones, director of the CRU, to and from many people, including scientists involved global warming and climate change studies. Jones confirmed to Investigate magazine's TGIF Edition Friday night that his organization had been hacked.
The file containing the emails were packaged and posted on blogs by an anonymous hacker. A list of the emails is on a site called ‘an elegant chaos.’
“We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps,” said the hacker on the global warming skeptic site Air Vent on Friday. “We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and document.” Read more.