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"I've just completed Mike's Nature [science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
-November 1999

"Any reproduction of the emails that were obtained on public websites, etc, constitutes serious criminal activity. I'm hoping the perpetrators and their facilitators will be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows."
-Professor Michael Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Centre, featured in many of the email exchanges

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In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes. Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics.

In one e-mail, the center's director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann and questions whether the work of academics that question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC report, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.

"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report," Jones writes. "Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

In another, Jones and Mann discuss how they can pressure an academic journal not to accept the work of climate skeptics with whom they disagree. "Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal," Mann writes.

"I will be emailing the journal to tell them I'm having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor," Jones replies. The story of the hacking has ranked among the most popular on Web sites ranging from The Washington Post's to that of London's Daily Telegraph. And it has spurred a flood of e-mails from climate skeptics to U.S. news organizations, some likening the disclosure to the release of the Pentagon Papers during Vietnam.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR20091121021
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

I think I see your point of view.

It's only breaking the law and it's only a violation of rights and it's only immoral when someone else is doing it.

I am dismayed to learn that you hold yourself to no higher ideals than your enemies.

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:

How many of Gore's books did they buy in order to make a poor quality grainy protest video?

It reminds me of people at book burnings who buy the offensive text merely for the purpose of throwing it in the flames.

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