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BBC Climate Correspondent Was Forwarded CRU Emails Five
Weeks Before They Were Made Public
Further indication that "climategate"
data was leaked by an inside source
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A BBC Weather presenter who was discussed by scientists in the
"climategate" emails says he was forwarded the material
more than five weeks before it was made public on the internet.
Paul Hudson, a weather presenter and climate correspondent
for the BBC, notes on
his blog "I was forwarded the chain of e-mails
on the 12th October,".
Hudson says he saw the exact emails that were
either hacked or leaked from the Climate Research Unit at East
Anglia University placed on the internet last week.
"The e-mails released on the internet as
a result of CRU being hacked into are identical to the ones
I was forwarded and read at the time and so, as far as l can
see, they are authentic." Hudson notes.
Following the publication of a 9th October article
Hudson wrote for the BBC entitled "whatever
happened to global warming?", in which he
questioned the science behind the theory of human induced warming,
the
BBC correspondent was discussed within emails to
which several of the CRU climatologists were privy, including
Kevin Trenberth, Michael Mann, Tom Wigley and Philip D. Jones.
Hudson's article, which pointed out that there
had been no increase in global temperatures since 1998, spurred
Kevin Trenberth, one of the leading authors of the IPCC report
on climate change to make the following comment within the private
emails to his colleagues:
"The fact is that we can't account for
the lack of warming at the moment and it is a
travesty that we can't."
Climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University
also commented on Hudson's piece, writing:
"extremely disappointing to see something like this
appear on BBC. its particularly odd, since climate is usually
Richard Black's beat at BBC (and he does a great job). from
what I can tell, this guy was formerly a weather person at
the Met Office.
We may do something about this on RealClimate, but meanwhile
it might be appropriate for the Met Office to have a say about
this, I might ask Richard Black what's up here?"
As
we reported yesterday, in addition to showing that
the scientists
manipulated data to “hide the decline”
in global temperatures, the thousands of leaked emails have
already revealed several references to efforts by the CRU scientists
to exclude skeptical warming viewpoints and evidence from important
scientific publications and the media at large.
If it is confirmed that the emails were forwarded
to the BBC's Paul Hudson on October 12th, it would provide a
strong indication that the source of the leak is an insider
at the CRU, rather than an external hacker.
Hudson says he is in the process of providing
a more detailed write up on the matter.
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