It looks more like a bunch of info leaked by someone inside than by a hacking exercise.

Maybe because an insider was dismayed by all the attempts to duck or delay legitimate FOIA requests ?

Leaving aside stuff about whether data was bent, added or omitted to fit the AGW theories, thereare some things the hacked emails defintely seem to show :

- discussions on how to prevent science journals publishing articles criticising AGW theories or the underlying methods

- discussions on how to dodge FOIA requests - or fudge the answers

- discussions on how to coordinate rapid responses to anything critical of AGW in the wider media

- pre-screening of comments on “open” AGW blogs, deleting anything critical.

And all that is scientific method ? Paid mostly by taxpayers’ dollars and pounds ?

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Some years back I witnessed how articles submitted to scientific journals were blocked by a cabal of medics who wanted their pet theories - FALSE theories - protected. The result was delay in publication of a new and very effective diagnosis method. And that delay cost a lot of lives. The new method has now been adopted internationally - but it would have happened a lot sooner but for the blocking tactics adopted by the dinosaur medics.

(The old method alleged that liver iron measutrements were a good proxy for measuring build-up of iron in heart muscle - a fatal condition. The new method showed that liver measurelents had no correlation with heart build-up, and demonstrated a new technique using MRI to directly assess iron concentration in heart muscle).