Confidential Climate Change E-mails hacked ahead of Copenhagen Meeting
A team of unidentified hackers has managed to steal "confidential" global warming data after breaking into the e-mail server of a prominent, British climate-research center and posted them online - showing that climate scientists conspired to overstate that man has caused climate change.
Kevin Trenberth, of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado, told the Associated Press that he believes the hackers did this to fuel skeptics theory that that climate change was not man-made. "It is right before the Copenhagen debate, I'm sure that is not a coincidence," Trenberth said.
Over a decade's worth of email correspondence between leading British and U.S. scientists was hacked - 1,079 emails and over 3,800 documents - which were then posted on an anonymous FTP server in Russia. The hacker then posted a link to the 61-MB file of data on the blog Air Vent along with the following note:
