[Now linked on Drudge]: Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege that they provide "smoking gun" evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to support the widely held view that climate change is real and is being largely caused by the actions of mankind.

RealClimate: The CRU hack

We were made aware of the existence of this archive last Tuesday morning when the hackers attempted to upload it to RealClimate, and we notified CRU of their possible security breach later that day.
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Since emails are normally intended to be private, people writing them are, shall we say, somewhat freer in expressing themselves than they would in a public statement.
...if cherry-picked out-of-context phrases from stolen personal emails is the only response to the weight of the scientific evidence for the human influence on climate change, then there probably isn’t much to it.

RealClimate: The CRU hack

[comment] “Clearly no-one would have gone to this trouble if the academic object of study was the mating habits of European butterflies.”

That depends on whether or not people were trying to re-order the global economy on the basis of those butterfly studies. And whether or not some folks had tried to substitute the odd moth in order to “hide the decline.”

RealClimate: The CRU hack

[comment] Asking people to delete emails, in an email, with the SUBJECT: line containing FOI is indeed a serious problem.