An open letter from one of the major climate scientists on the hacked email disinformation campaign:

[kpete]

An open letter from one of the major climate scientists on the hacked email disinformation campaign:

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From: Ben Santer <[e-mail]>
> Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM
> Subject: Open letter to the climate science community

> Dear colleagues and friends,

> I am sure that by now, all of you are aware of the hacking incident which
> recently took place at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research
> Unit (CRU). This was a criminal act. Over 3,000 emails and documents were
> stolen. The identity of the hacker or hackers is still unknown.

> The emails represented private correspondence between CRU scientists and
> scientists at climate research centers around the world. Dozens of the
> stolen emails are from over a decade of my own personal correspondence with
> Professor Phil Jones, the Director of CRU.

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Yesterday was a very sad day for climate science. When the forces of unreason win, and force exceptional scientists like Professor Phil Jones to leave their positions, we all lose. Climate science loses. Our community loses. The world loses.

Now, more than at any other time in human history, we need sound scientific information on the nature and causes of climate change. Phil Jones and his colleagues at CRU have helped to provide such information. I hope that all of you will join me in thanking Phil for everything he has done - and will do in the future - for our scientific community. He and his CRU colleagues deserve great credit.

(the whole thing is worth reading,kp)
http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering/browse_thread/thread/d3aec95a5f27fbb6?utoken=dsWN8TEAAADo3YPLu9zCVmZ4Wn0CaQOYWoGiNPjNgsVHjFB2ksDY_cUqO3_fUImGvoyvYHb3tBTssAUJRQREsaQLr7Cfz2Ps

[buff2]

1. Why is it

That whenever CONservative thugs want to get rid of someone they always WIN??? Can't SOMEONE stand up to them for once and say GO TO HELL...I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!!

[The Doctor.]

2. They use people's integrity and decency against them.

Those that have integrity are particularly vulnerable to even the appearance of dishonesty. The Kons use bullshit by the truckload to leverage that against people.