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Advisor Blames "Climategate" Revelations on Espionage
Written by James Heiser
Monday, 01 February 2010 14:32
As revelations in the “Climategate” scandal continue to undermine the theory of manmade climate change, the chief scientific advisor for former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair is claiming that "foreign spies" may be responsible for the leak of the embarrassing documents.
A report was posted at Independent.co.uk about claims mad by David King, who served as Blair’s advisor for seven years:
However, King is not content merely to generically blame “a foreign government”; instead, he appears prepared to lay the blame at the door of the Russian government, in part, apparently, because of an effort by the hackers themselves to leave a trail of evidence leading back to Russia. According to the Independent:
The confusing "blame game" that has emerged in the various theories of King and others with a blur of references to China, Russia, and "a maverick group" of Americans connected to “lobbyists” makes for a fairly complicated set of conspiracy theories.
However, even if the notion of a shadowy group of “skilled professionals” laboring on behalf of “anti-climate change lobbyists” were proven correct, what does not change is the fundamental problem confronting adherents of the theory of manmade climate change: the very existence of the leaked e-mails. The identity of the hackers and their motivations for releasing the e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia does not negate the facts contained within the e-mails, and those facts are devastating to the global-warming theory. As any good scientist knows, ultimately the facts are what matters, and the motivations of the hackers behind Climategate does not change the fact that the CRU e-mails authored by some of the most significant proponents of the climate-change theory have done much to effectively undermine their argument in the minds of the public.
The New American
Written by James Heiser
Monday, 01 February 2010 14:32
As revelations in the “Climategate” scandal continue to undermine the theory of manmade climate change, the chief scientific advisor for former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair is claiming that "foreign spies" may be responsible for the leak of the embarrassing documents.
A report was posted at Independent.co.uk about claims mad by David King, who served as Blair’s advisor for seven years:
However, King is not content merely to generically blame “a foreign government”; instead, he appears prepared to lay the blame at the door of the Russian government, in part, apparently, because of an effort by the hackers themselves to leave a trail of evidence leading back to Russia. According to the Independent:
The confusing "blame game" that has emerged in the various theories of King and others with a blur of references to China, Russia, and "a maverick group" of Americans connected to “lobbyists” makes for a fairly complicated set of conspiracy theories.
However, even if the notion of a shadowy group of “skilled professionals” laboring on behalf of “anti-climate change lobbyists” were proven correct, what does not change is the fundamental problem confronting adherents of the theory of manmade climate change: the very existence of the leaked e-mails. The identity of the hackers and their motivations for releasing the e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia does not negate the facts contained within the e-mails, and those facts are devastating to the global-warming theory. As any good scientist knows, ultimately the facts are what matters, and the motivations of the hackers behind Climategate does not change the fact that the CRU e-mails authored by some of the most significant proponents of the climate-change theory have done much to effectively undermine their argument in the minds of the public.
The New American
