Climate Change: Scientific Fact or Political and Financial Gold Mine
the director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom resigned his position. In November, a hacker breached the unit’s database, gaining access to and subsequently publishing hundreds of emails. The content of those communiques strongly suggests that scientists have been filtering the climate information released to the public between 1996 and 2000 in an effort to preserve funding for their studies proving the existence of man-made global warming. Defenders of the CRU say the scandal, known in some circles as “Climategate,” is nothing more than an effort to sabotage the Copenhagen climate summit, scheduled for December 7-18, 2009.
