Two scientists, whose stolen e-mail messages are being used by skeptics of climate change as a justification for avoiding reductions in global greenhouse-gas emissions, are now receiving death threats by e-mail, according to reports in Australia and Britain.
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9 Responses to Climate-Change Researchers Receive Death Threats
climatologist - December 9, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Why would anybody do it? What’s the profit behind it? This is nonsense. CNN should better explain what were those secret meetings at Copenhagen to which, by the way, CNN was not allowed. I think people need to know before they are being taxed to produce green products and make Al Gore rich!
sullivab - December 9, 2009 at 3:59 pm
And our children,grandchildren and grandchildren’s children will be taxed at far higher rates to pay for the plutocrats’ lust for waging ill-conceived wars for control oil reserves in the Persian Gulf.
11122741 - December 9, 2009 at 4:56 pm
absolute BS to garner sympathy unless the death threats are from their brothern and fellow colluders for getting outed.
jsch0602 - December 9, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Why are these people still called scientists? Isn’t “political hack” a more appropriate name?
22113683 - December 10, 2009 at 8:55 am
Sorry, but I smell another rat. Specifically, a faked story to elicit sympathy for the poor, abused fakers at East Anglia and Penn State. How can they be guilty if the right-wing nut-jobs are persecuting them? Gimme a break!
corwinamber - December 10, 2009 at 9:39 am
The crime here is the illegal hacking of private e-mail and data-mining it to create misinformation. Who hacked them, and who put them up to it, and which skeptics were behind them? If you searched a decade of e-mails of anyone and selectively edited them you could prove almost anything. I wonder what the private e-mails of the skeptics, the Heartland Institute, and all those unwilling to face reality would tell us about their actions and motives over the past decade.
11122741 - December 10, 2009 at 10:59 am
absolute nonsense and deflection cornwinamber and you should try doing your homework first. There is a long and very, very sorted history of data fabrication for ideological purposes and an a priori social/rewligious agenda in Britian that is over a century old. Try googling Cyril Burt and his fabrication of IQ data for 20 years that took another 20 to detect or reading Stephan J. Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man about the century long fabrication and misrpresentation of data in Britian to support social Darwinian views on saving and perfecting society and returning everything to a “garden of eden state” which is essentially the same arguments and views of these data fabricators. Fabricating data is nothing new or an anomaly in British science and social science and whoever outed them should be given the Nobel in science this year. It is more than disgraceful and failing a moral hazard and was done for extremely base reasons.
johntoradze - December 10, 2009 at 12:14 pm
The real story here is who orchestrated this theft of emails to coincide with the conference and special legislation in the USA. Add to that, who is paying for the PR campaign from the demagogue shills. I’ve read those emails. There is no story. It’s all a PR game. I want to know why no journalist(s) are going after the real story.
jaysanderson - December 11, 2009 at 12:02 pm
One of my students, today, snitched on the student cheating on my final exam. I confirmed the cheating and sent the cheater packing with an F. To snitch or not to snitch is an individual decision, but cheating is an academic offense and isn’t tolerated in my corner of the academic world.The real story, johntoradze, is academic dishonesty committed by two formerly very influential faux scientists. They sought and found funding, influence and power by dishonest means. In doing so, they diminished-however slightly-our profession. This is intolerable and we must hold them accountable. Death threats are silly, but dismissal from their positions are appropriate. I’ve read the emails as well, and they clearly intended to deceive and to destroy the data rather than get caught. Their dishonesty has called into question a huge body of legitimate climate research. That isn’t the hacker’s fault, it’s the fault of the cheating, data-fakers.