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  ‘Climate-gate’ resurfaces with a new round of e-mails
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Last EditedHomegrown Democrat  Nov 23, 2011 05:19am
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AuthorJuliet Eilperin
MediaNewspaper - Washington Post
News DateWednesday, November 23, 2011 09:30:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionLess than a week before U.N. negotiators convene in South Africa for a new round of talks aimed at forging a global climate pact, a hacker has released an apparent second round of e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain, seeking to portray climate scientists in a negative light.

The e-mail exchanges, which appear to have been pulled from the same set of pirated electronic files taken from servers at the university’s Climatic Research Unit more than two years ago, do not contain any new revelations about research linking human activity to global warming. But the release highlights the ongoing conflict between some bloggers and climate-change skeptics who challenge this scientific consensus, and those who support it.

In 2009, an anonymous hacker posted more than 1,000 e-mails from the University of East Anglia on the Web, sparking a controversy dubbed “Climate-gate” by some media outlets and prompting many conservatives in the United States and elsewhere to question whether human activity induces global warming. British police have investigated the ­e-mail piracy but have yet to identify who was behind it.
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