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BREAKING: Climate Research Unit Hacked – Sensitive Documents Dumped to Internet

By: Doug Payton (Diary)  |  November 20th, 2009 at 01:21 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

And it ain’t a happy day for the CRU.  True, this is a cybercrime, and the perpetrator(s) should be brought to justice.  But equally as big is the contents of the >1000 e-mails and >3800 documents.

The Hadley Climate Research Unit has confirmed the hack, so this is not a hoax, and global-warming-skeptic sites like “Watts Up With That” and Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald-Sun newspaper are sifting through the data, finding some rather compromising evidence.  Some include details on how temperature data was manipulated, to frustration that the climate models didn’t predict the current global temp decline, to attempts to obfuscate data released via a Freedom of Information request.  Bolt has been updating his post frequently and has a dozen examples so far.

As the Wall St. Journal says, “Well, this should get interesting.”

True, this could all be a major hoax, but with Hadley confirming the breach, and with 61 megabytes of data having been dumped (i.e. a vast amount), this is sounding very real.  Stay tuned.

Doug Payton blogs at Considerettes.

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  • The_Gadfly

    I think the claim that it was a hack is a lie and the more likely explanation is a mole/whistle blower. You don’t wait three or four days after you become aware of a hack to report it to the police. Security 101 is identify, isolate, report. I could let them slide if it were 24 hours during which time they were investigating an issue that had not been determined to be a hack. But as soon as it is determined to be a hack, the police need to be contacted. Even if you don’t know the full extent of the hack (and usually you won’t) it gets reported along with the fact that you are still investigating.

  • JadedByPolitics

    these documents ought to be getting MAJOR awards at Conservative events like CPAC. There is some question about whether it was hacking or someone internally who was horrified at the lying going on and the potential to destroy countries over these lies and they released and dumped them.

    I see the LEFTIST media is doing what it can to keep this MAJOR story under the rug. I know if these were Enron documents there would be wall to wall coverage. It is shameful that the media’s ideology is so far LEFT that they can no longer have a shred of decency in their thinking that they would not run with such a HUGE story as this and of course the ACORN story! It is why their numbers are below Congress and WE know how LEFT they are!

    • Flagstaff

      There were two paragraphs today about the hack. There was exactly zero included about the contents of the hack. Surprise, surprise.

  • izoneguy

    • JadedByPolitics

      this is his trillions that are on the line and he is sweating bullets!

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

    A mole has been working at the CRU for a long time. It’s quite possible this was a whistleblower and the hacking accusations are a CYA maneuver.

    a mole within CRU was active in July 2009
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/26/deep-cool-the-mole-within-hadley-cru/

    the mole was discovered
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/28/hadley-cru-discovers-the-mole/

    One plausible way it could have happened is that Phil Jones, who is known to have uploaded his own private data (including emails) to anonymous FTP sites in the past, might have created a zip archive full of files and stored it at some insecure location, from which it was taken. Maybe he thought his hard drive was going bad and wanted to backup the data somewhere else. Who knows?

    But the bottom line for me is that the story of the data being hacked sounds like a coverup. If it was hacked, why didn’t the laboratory call the police when it happened instead of waiting to see what data had been “stolen”? If they were hacked why didn’t they call the police and change all the passwords the same day? They waited until last night. Why?

    Why? Why didn’t the hound of the Baskervilles bark?

  • redneck_hippie

    smears all over the faces of those saying, “We did not have our fingers in the cookie jar, we’ve been hacked!” That’s why.

  • mschmitt
  • redneck_hippie

    reco’ed the climatedepot.com website. Just up is a file of “Alleged CRU Emails – Searchable” – Enjoy!

    http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/index.php