Climate gate involved the criminal theft of computer based data from University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers by global warming deniers. According to Julian Gregory ,Detective chief superintendent, "the data breach was the result of a sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack" and that there was no evidence to suggest that anyone working at or associated with UEA was involved in the crime." However, the criminal perpetrator, we assume a member of the global warming denialist community, was not discovered and the statute of limitations for this particular criminal act runs out in November. Thus, the investigation closed Wednesday.
Leo Hickman has the full story here.
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One thing the blogosphere is good for is spirited discussion and fast dissemination of news stories. One thing it is not good for is the old addage "where there's smoke, there's fire".
Penn State has released the preliminary conclusions of its inquiry into the purloined e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
It's damn hot. Stay inside and read some links. Science:
Following in the foot steps of the Sunday Times' retraction of their bogus Jonathan Leake story, the BBC
Somebody want to alert my climate-change-denying step-father this?
And thanks for posting this Greg, because I will send him the link and await his liberal-bias-caused-nothing-to-be-found response to this. >.<
It was probably an only-slightly-rogue operation within Newscorp.