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UEA climate hack ‘dirty political tactics’
Thousands of emails and documents stolen from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and posted online suggest researchers “massaged figures to mask the fact that world temperatures have been declining in recent years,” says the Telegraph . Some 1,000 emails and 3,000 documents were stolen from UEA computers by hackers last week and uploaded to a Russian server before circulating on websites run by climate change sceptics, says the story, continuing: “Some of the correspondence indicates that the manipulation of data was widespread among global warming researchers. “One of the emails under scrutiny, written by Phil Jones, the centre’s director, in 1999, reads: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature the science journal trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” “Prof Jones has insisted that he used the word ‘trick’ to mean a ‘clever thing to do’, rather than to indicate deception.
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