Anthropogenic Global Warming Suffers Crushing Blow

In the form of hacked e mails and documents:

The UK-based Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU), at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, is reported to have {suffered} a security breach which has resulted in many confidential emails and files being uploaded to the internet.

A 61MB zip file containing information stolen from one of the world’s leading climate research {centers}, was posted onto an anonymous FTP server in Russia, accompanied by a note saying:

We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.

We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents

In total it is believed that the unknown hacker accessed 1079 emails (some of which are marked as “Highly Confidential”) and over 3800 documents. A spokesman for the Climate Research Unit confirmed the hack to the BBC.

The big news?

Some of the most embarrassing e-mails are attributed to Philip Jones, the Director of the CRU; Keith Briffa, his assistant; Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia; Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona; and others. One such e-mail makes references to the famous “hockey-stick” graph published by Mann in the journal Nature:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline

The defenders of AGW are saying that the e mails and documents are not representative of all the data; that they are being taken out of context; that they are being misinterpreted…but if you go through the links and read for yourself, I think you’ll conclude – as I have – that the AGW were deliberately lying at least as early as 1999 in the data they presented to buttress their case. Since then, its only gotten worse – they were hiding a decline in the rate of temperature increase in 1999…since then, temps have remained flat or gone down.

Temperatures do appear to have risen in the last third of the 20th century. From what I can gather, it seems that the rise was natural, cyclical and is now receding. The theory of antrhopogenic global warming was cooked up by alarmists to sell books and garner donations and grants – it became so large and entrenched over time that politicians decided to join in rather than oppose, it being easier to make noises about environmentalism and appropriate money than to go through the tedious process of actually finding out what is going on.

It has been the largest and most expensive hoax in human history and every person who was responsible for advancing it should be heavily fined in order to pay back the costs incurred – Al Gore, we’re especially looking at you.

UPDATE: Bishop Hill has a list running of the e mails and what they contain. Sample:

Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709). Analysis of impact here. Wow!