"It has now been reported that the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Center is not the only victim of such a criminal invasion: burglars and hackers have also attacked the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria in British Columbia:
Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria scientist and key contributor to the Nobel prize-winning work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says there have been a number of attempted breaches in recent months, including two successful break-ins at his campus office in which a dead computer was stolen and papers were rummaged through.
These attacks go beyond simple burglary. University of Victoria spokeswoman Patty Pitts told the National Post “there have also been attempts to hack into climate scientists’ computers, as well as incidents in which people impersonated network technicians to try to gain access to campus offices and data.”
For thirty years, defenders of a pollution-based economy have intimidated, smeared, and suppressed climate science, using a playbook perfected by the tobacco industry and Karl Rove. Now—as the United States, led by President Obama, finally appears ready to join the world in the fight against global warming—the opponents of reform are resorting to criminal desperation, harkening back to the paranoia-fueled extremes of Richard Nixon."
"Unusually, I’m in complete agreement with a recent headline on the
Wall Street Journal op-ed page: “The Climate Science Isn’t Settled”
The article below is the same mix of innuendo and misrepresentation
that its author normally writes, but the headline is correct. The WSJ
seems to think that the headline is some terribly important
pronouncement that in some way undercuts the scientific consensus on
climate change but they are simply using an old rhetorical ‘trick’.
The phrase “the science is settled” is associated almost 100% with
contrarian comments on climate and is usually a paraphrase of what
’some scientists’ are supposed to have said [...]."
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