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Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 6:43 AM by Associated Press
A leading climate change scientist says the leak of documents stolen from a British research institute may be aimed at undermining talks at next month's Copenhagen global climate summit.
Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado said in an interview Sunday that hackers cherry-picked from the stolen data and distributed selected documents to try to undermine scientific consensus on man-made climate change.
Britain's University of East Anglia said hackers last week stole data from its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change. Skeptics claim correspondence shows collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming.
Trenberth says the hackers took data out of context.
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