'Climategate' is the first in a new wave of attacks

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/382011/climategate_is_the_first_in_a_new_wave_of_attacks.html

'Climategate' is the first in a new wave of attacks

Chris Genovali

15th December, 2009

The emails hacked from the servers of the University of East Anglia continue to cause controversy. But it was not a singular attack, says Chris Genovali, just the only successful one so far...

Sceptics in Canada have used the so-called 'http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/bloggers/the_editors_blog/371069/shame_on_the_climategate_scientists.html">Climategate' controversy to call for a cautious approach at COP 15 or even an abandonment of mitigation measures.

Climategate does not change the fact that all the credible evidence vetted in countless scientifically peer-reviewed papers shows the primary cause of climate disruption is anthropogenic and that global warming poses severe risks to humanity, requiring immediate action to limit carbon emissions. Rather, Climategate is a convenient sideshow the doubters have seized upon in a continuation of their desperate efforts to defy reality and sway public policy. But Climategate is not the scandal the denier camp thinks it is.

A coordinated campaign

As online journalist Richard Graves, director of Fired Up Media, recently put it in an http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/08-4">opinion piece for CommonDreams.org: 'The real scandal is not the email archive, or even how it was acquired, sorted, and uploaded to a Russian server, but rather the emerging evidence of a coordinated international campaign to target and harass climate scientists, break and enter into government climate labs, and misrepresent climate science through a sophisticated media infrastructure on the eve of the international climate talks'.

There now appears to be a concerted effort, via espionage, to undermine and attack climate scientists and their research. As http://www2.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=a47c4178-4198-4dfc-a727-46dd9d0198cf">reported by Judith Lavoie of the Victoria Times Colonist, during the last year here in Canada there have been two break-ins at Dr. Andrew Weaver's University of Victoria office and several attempts to hack into the computer system.

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[RoccoR5955]

1. This is not new

They have been doing this all along. Thirty years ago, when there was the first findings that things were changing with the climate, the corporatists were at it. They continue to this day, and continue to brainwash people. It will never stop, until the corporations see that in order for their corporation to survive, the planet must survive.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Parasites killing the host. nt