Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor

Wall Street Journal by Keith Johnson | Nov. 21, 2009 (News Analysis)

The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices. It could undermine the idea that the science of man-made global warming is entirely settled just weeks before a crucial climate-change summit. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 24, 2009

Here the WSJ provides a megaphone for the hackers who selected and distorted the messages off the hacked web site. The focus is all on the shouting, with no scientific analysis of climate change included.

“The selective publication of some stolen emails and other papers taken out of context is mischievous and cannot be considered a genuine attempt to engage with this issue in a responsible way,” the university said.

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