Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate

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Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate

Nov 20th, 2009 - Wired

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An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online.

Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of the messages as evidence that scientists are colluding and warping data to fit the theory of global warming, but researchers say the e-mails are being taken out of context and just show scientists engaged in frank discussion.

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