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UN scientist: What Climategate?
In
harsh wording Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, defends
British colleagues whose hacked emails have ignited debate
over the credibility of mainstream climate science.
08/12/2009 18:30 - The hacking of emails from a leading
British climate research centre is a “terrible and
illegal act”, according to Rajendra Pachauri, chairman
of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
advising the UN negotiations on climate.
“I
think this is an illegal act. The only issue that has to
be dealt with as far as this occurrence is concerned is
to find out who is behind it,” Mr. Pachauri told a
press conference according to AFP.
The
emails were hacked from computers at the University of East
Anglia. As some of the emails seem to reflect attempts by
mainstream scientists to block publication of articles by
dissenting researchers, the affair has been dubbed “Climategate”
by the media. This is a highly misleading phrase according
to Rajendra Pachauri:
“One
can only surmise that those who have carried out this act
have done it with the very clear intention as to influence
the process in Copenhagen – but, barring a few isolated
voices, people over here are totally convinced of the solidity
of the findings of the IPCC report.”
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon concurs: “Nothing that
has come out in the public as a result of the recent email
hackings has cast doubt on the basic scientific message
on climate change and that message is quite clear –
that climate is changing much, much faster than we realized
and we human beings are the primary cause,” Ban Ki-moon
states, according to Reuters.
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