ClimateGate - Hacker or leaker?

Major clues suggest the leaks were from an insider. A few emails were sent to a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter Paul Hudson on October 12, weeks before full release. This indicates someone trying to draw attention, but Hudson did nothing.

April 2011: Climategate: What Really Happened?

Even as the buzz around the emails kept building, scientists tried to dismiss them as a non-story. Jones only acknowledged the theft two days after the emails became public, in an interview with the New Zealand magazine Investigate [95]. He said he wasn't sure what exactly was in the hacked data, and noted that the university had not even alerted the police.

By the time the scientists finally reacted, the story was entering the news bloodstream.

Hybrid hell: Q&A with climate scientist

KE: My profession has not compiled a good climatology of hybrid events. We have fantastic climatology of hurricanes, but we don't have a good climatology of hybrid events. It is really because we haven't done our homework. We don't have very good theoretical or modeling guidance on how hybrid storms might be expected to change with climate.

So this is a fancy way of saying my profession doesn't know how hybrid storms will respond to climate. I feel strongly about that. I think that anyone who says we do know that is not giving you a straight answer. We don't know. Which is not to say that they are not going to be influenced by climate, it's really to say honestly we don't know. We haven't studied them enough. It's not because we can't know, it is just that we don't know.