Note to self: stolen emails negate climate change?

Note to self: stolen emails negate climate change? Since when did stealing solve anything, especially global warming??

Our engineer, Devon O'Shea, is currently in Europe attending the Climate Change Conference. When I emailed Devon for an update on the conference he sent back an email asking me to post the following open letter to Congress from the scientific community regarding stolen emails. I had no idea what it was about so I did some digging.

It didn't take long to pull up information about the stolen emails.

October 21, 2009 several U.S. scientists wrote to Congress offering their assistance in developing solutions for global climate change. These scientists are in agreement their research supports human activity is responsible for the greatest portion of climate change.

In November, 2009 over 1000 emails and other documents were stolen from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the U.K. As reported in the Wall Street Journal and around the world, these were later uploaded to a russian file sharing site.

The university says, ""The selective publication of some stolen emails and other papers taken out of context is mischievous and cannot be considered a genuine attempt to engage with this issue in a responsible way," the university said."

The accusation has been made by those stealing and posting private emails and documents that the scientists falsified data, which is what they were trying to prove by selecting certain emails and documents and posting them. There is a police investigation in process to discover the thiefs.

The university is starting a formal investigation into the accusation of fraud, which will be headed up by Sir Muir Russell.

There is speculation in the world communities that this hack was designed to shed more doubt on the human contribution to climate change and affect the outcome of the climate change conference in Copenhagen. However, the growing consensus to the human contribution to climate change is so large this hack is unlikely to have an effect.

I excitedly watch folks put the brakes on global warming in a positive way, by implementing clean energy such as this hybrid renewable energy system designed by Devon at Contractors Building Supply.

Devon also referred me to this website article, "Skeptical Science explains how we know global warming is happening: it's the oceans, stupid!" This is an interesting post which debunks the skeptics "global cooling" myth with evidence. This article points to studies which show the oceans are still in a warming trend.

It's some pretty deep reading, but that's the point. The "global cooling party" has been basing their theories on measurements from surface waters which are too shallow to get a good picture of what is going on in the ocean.

It makes me wonder what effect this warming has had overall on our climate events such as hurricanes over the past few years. Communities in the south ~ Florida, Lousiana, Texas ~ have all been devasted by hurricanes. How many of these so-called "natural disasters" are man made to some extent?

Copenhagen Climate Change Conference - for the latest news on the climate change conference I visit Denmark's host country website.

The open letter's to congress can be downloaded here: Open letters from U.S. Scientific Community regarding climate change.

Devon has promised more news. I am anxious to hear from him!

As a parting note, a reminder: keep your private emails private. It is so easy in today's day and age for people to misuse emails and forward to unintended parties. My Mom always warned me not to put in writing that which I didn't want others to read!!!

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