The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers
by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday, November 19, 2009.
A spokesman for the University of East Anglia confirmed that the email system had been hacked and that information was taken and published without permission, and he added that an investigation was underway and the police had been informed.
"We are aware that information from a server used for research information in one area of the university has been made available on public websites," the spokesman stated.
"Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm that all of this material is genuine.
"This information has been obtained and published without our permission and we took immediate action to remove the server in question from operation.
"We are undertaking a thorough internal investigation and we have involved the police in this inquiry."
Obviously he is not going to admit, at least not as yet, whether the information is genuine for there will be some heavy “damage control” put in operation and in the end, and one could bet one's life on that, I am nigh on certain, they will claim that the information distributed on certain, primarily Russian websites, is falsified and not genuine.
Researchers at CRU, one of the world's leading research bodies on natural and human-induced climate change, played a key role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, which is considered to be the most authoritative report of its kind.
'Inside information'
Graham Cluley, a computer security expert, suggested that December's key climate summit in Copenhagen, which has made headlines around the world, could have increased the university's profile as a possible target among hackers.
"There are passionate opinions on both sides of the climate debate and there will be people trying to knock down the other side," Mr Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said.
"If they feel that they can gather inside information on what the other side is up to, then they may feel that is ammunition for their counterargument."
Mr Cluley added that universities were vulnerable to attacks by hackers because so many people required access to IT systems.
"You do need proper security in place; you need to be careful regarding communications and make sure your systems are secure.
"I trust that they will now be looking at the systems, and investigating how this happened and ensuring that something like this does not happen again."
I must say that from what I have so far heard of this it proves what I have been saying for years now, namely that a conspiracy is afoot as to “Global Warming”, now renamed “Climate Change”, as they no longer could persuade people to believe the warming when in other places it is getting colder (and wetter), seeing that the likes of Prof Davis Bellamy had been silenced and that rather effectively.
While it is rather obvious from what is going on around the world that the world's climate is changing and that Mother Earth is throwing some kind of a wobbly and that, to some degree, human activity, in the form of deforestation and pollution is some way responsible, most of the changes in the climate do not seem to be attributable to human activity.
We must reduce our environmental footprint, that is sure, but we also must find ways to adjust to any such changes that are happening just in case, and I believe that to be the case, that we cannot stop Climate Change and that the changes in the world's climate are due mostly to what the Earth Herself is doing.
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