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E-mail leak turns up heat on global warming advocates

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In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned British institute that show researchers colluding to exaggerate warming and undermine skeptics.

University of East Anglia officials confirmed the Climate Research Unit’s e-mails were hacked, but were unable to confirm the veracity of posted content, according to British and American news reports. Skeptics of human-caused warming, who note temperatures appear to have stopped climbing, called the news explosive.

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“It does look incriminating on the surface,” Bob Ward, a climate change expert at the London School of Economics, told Britain’s Guardian newspaper, though he said it may not be so sinister. “Scientists say ‘trick’ not just to mean deception. They mean it as a clever way of doing something - a short cut can be a trick.” Substitute the word Politician for Scientist and you would think they were speaking about the Beacon Hill Mob.
 
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histiry
 
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History has taught us a lot ..,,, Gaius Caesar Germanicus and The Praetorian Guard .
 
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We should outlaw beans for people that would solve the issue.
 
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schnoepoe
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At least it wasn't the "Climate Change" experts lying. Probably just some "Global warming" experts that Obama inherited.
 
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whatsnext
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don't ladies of the evening turn "tricks" to get your $, now i guess it's "scientist.
 
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ALJ
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These are people who take phonies like Algore seriously. Hey, Al: What is the temperature 100 miles beneath the surface of the earth?
 
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truthczar
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As someone with 3 science degrees, I have been disgusted how the media has distorted facts, misrespresented results of studies, ignored studies that don't support the political party line, and generally have conspired to perpetrate this fraud of man made global warming. I also know that people don't bite the hand that feeds them, and almost all climate change research is paid for by government grants, either directly or indirectly. Do you really think any grant dependent researcher would study possible positive results of climate change in this political climate? The thought police are alive and well in science research. Note to liberal facists....the climate has been in perpetual flux since the beginning of the planet.
 
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PocassetEE
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Our political leaders have fallen victim to the wind energy scam which was started about 10 years ago by companies like Enron. The scam uses the public’s fear of Global Warming to convince government to subsidize and mandate alternative energy sources without regard to effectiveness. Typical of the laws passed is the Massachusetts Green Communities Act, which mandates that 25% of our electric power will come from renewable sources, mostly wind, by the year 2030.

This movement puts us on a path which will more than double the cost of electricity with little on no effect against stopping Global Warming. Now we find out that Global Warming is a scam. Planting more than 3,000 400 foot wind turbines all over the state is about as stupid as we can get.
 
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johnson
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Al Gore 'invented' global warming. After he invented books he needed a subject to write about.
 
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