Climate Research Unit Hacked

Hank Hostetler
November 30
8:00 pm

On November 19, this year, the Hadley Climate Research center was hacked by Russian black hats. Over 3,000 documents were stolen, including many private emails from climate scientists. The emails contained very sensitive information, many of them detailing ways that scientists have hidden the statistics on global temperature decline or presented statistics in ways that support global warming. The research center confirmed the next day that the documents were genuine. This event is expected to have a strong impact on the Copenhagen meeting on global climate change in December.
This article popularizes information that has really been available for some time. It does not give details or specifics about the documents stolen from Hadley research center but simply states the revealing of scientists' attempts to hide recent declines in global temperature. These statistics have already been revealed but have not been largely presented in popular media until this recent event. It is interesting that the documents were stolen so close to the Copenhagen meeting and also interesting that the Hadley Research center confirmed the legitimacy of the stolen documents so quickly. I was surprised to find this article in the Wall Street Journal and I think this event is definitely worth digging further into.

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/11/20/hacked-sensitive-documents-lifted-from-hadley-climate-center/?blog_id=9&post_id=8495