It was the Russians, re climate change email shenanigans

[poopfuel]

Got to keep all of us using their fossil fuels, after all. From the Independent

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/07-6

[JonQ]

1. According to an accusation

by "a senior member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change".

They took that theory at face value then ran with it as if it were a fact and immediately started identifying enemies. Sounds familiar . . .

[Viking12]

2. I'm sure it sounds familiar

That was your M.O. in declaring global warming was a hoax after you heard it on Hannity.

[JonQ]

3. What, no corporation shill?

You're losing your touch. :rofl:

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-russian-secret-service-behind-leak-of-climatechange-emails-1835502.html

Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails?

FSB accused of paying hackers to discredit scientists after stolen correspondence traced to server in Siberia

By Shaun Walker

Monday, 7 December 2009

The news that a leaked set of emails appeared to show senior climate scientists had manipulated data was shocking enough. Now the story has become more remarkable still.

The computer hack, said a senior member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, was not an amateur job, but a highly sophisticated, politically motivated operation. And others went further. The guiding hand behind the leaks, the allegation went, was that of the Russian secret services.

The leaked emails, which claimed to provide evidence that the unit's head, Professor Phil Jones, colluded with colleagues to manipulate data and hide "unhelpful" research from critics of climate change science, were originally posted on a server in the Siberian city of Tomsk, at a firm called Tomcity, an internet security business.

The FSB security services, descendants of the KGB, are believed to invest significant resources in hackers, and the Tomsk office has a record of issuing statements congratulating local students on hacks aimed at anti-Russian voices, deeming them "an expression of their position as citizens, and one worthy of respect". The Kremlin has also been accused of running co-ordinated cyber attacks against websites in neighbouring countries such as Estonia, with which the Kremlin has frosty relations, although the allegations were never proved.

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