12:31 Breaking Server climatic research unit led to a big scandal about global warming | |
| The other day as a result of hacking has been kidnapped secret correspondence with the server of the University of British East Anglia's Climate Research Unit www.cru.uea.ac.uk. Hadley CRU - one of the world's leading institutes for the study of anthropogenic and natural climate change. Unknown hacker posted the archive 62Mb (!) Internal communications CRU in Russian FTP-server. Next, the archive was sold to a torrent. All anything, but it follows from the correspondence, staff CRU sometimes manipulated the statistics so that the statistics would look like, so that Global warming (tm) is indeed a serious problem. This fact caused a great scandal. It is understandable, as a formal organization can manipulate information about global issues? The blog telegraph.co.uk published an article on the subject, under the headlines "The last nail in the coffin of anthropogenic global warming?". Links: Post a blog timurzil with details and a piece of correspondence Article on blogs.telegraph.co.uk (eng) Article on wattsupwiththat.com (eng) PS: To be fair it is worth adding that the CRU is really a serious university. With a lot of stupid scientists. Discredit their work would be wrong. Of course, the belief in Global Warming is now diminished considerably. But just dismiss it not worth it, just probably not as big a problem as it is painted. This case - a good illustration of that speculation on the problems to no good arguments. All the secret will become apparent, and even small lies can lead to big consequences. UPD: There is an interesting opinion that the fact that hacking is speculation in order to blow the scandal. And the possible falsification of information, such as those persons who unprofitable theme of global warming, or the organization itself CRU. [See the upper branch of comments] If so, we are dealing with a competent scheme information attack: 1. Burglary with theft of a large number of reliable information. 2. The introduction of false data. 3. Anonymous distribution and inflation scandal. This version has the right to life. Because electronic documents that prove little. But the truth is we do not know. Help only in-depth analysis or new items. Take care of mail on their servers. :) UPD2 (23.12.09): Since the post was published there have been various things on the topic: Centre for Climate Research in Eastern England did not refute the accuracy of the data. They only said that some quotes pulled out of context. Chapter Center Phil Jones - outgoing (because of the published correspondence): lenta.ru/news/2009/12/02/climate / Of course someone had priplesti policy to this story (accusing FSB:) lenta.ru/news/2009/12/07/fsb / On Habre appeared an interesting study of statistics of the leaked files: habrahabr.ru/blogs/popular_science/76482 / The central part of Russia of freezing on week or up to -25, and then covered with snow on the windshield. :) That's it. | |
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