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What made the ACORN-exposing work of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles so sensational was that they successfully infiltrated the habitats of the subjects they investigated, and observed their routine behaviors. They didn't have to coerce or pressure the ACORN office workers to say or do things they did not want to do. It wasn't "60 Minutes," but it reflected the new paradigm under cable TV news and Web rules. James and Hannah were like computer hackers walking in the front door and literally being given what they wanted.

So now an actual hacker -- or an insider -- has exposed something similar in the global warming activism realm: scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (regarded as Britain's top authority) caught in behaviors they would never want the outside world to see. Marc Morano at Climate Depot is developing the link archive and Australian reporter Andrew Bolt is harvesting revelatory remarks from emails and documents, as he explains:

So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below - emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down sceptics.

This is clearly not the work of some hacker, but of an insider who’s now blown the whistle.

The clogosphere (climate blogs) is awash in this story (again, see Climate Depot). Even if this isn't your issue, you ought to at least spend a little time this weekend (all us politico-infojunkies still get our fixes on Saturdays, right?) perusing what Bolt has unearthed. Amazing stuff which Chris Horner says could be alarmism's "blue dress moment." As Bolt notes, it's not just the East Anglians -- it's the foremost global warmer scientists from all over, caught. Wow.

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Global Warming, Environmentalism, Climate Change

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Pete2| 11.20.09 @ 6:17PM

The alarmists are busy doing damage control right now by trying to shut down access to any links to this. Facebook apparently has engaged in some censorship also of the "Wrong but not Evil " thread. This could blow Al gore and the rest of the alrmists out of the water same as the two did for ACORN.

Retired Navy Fighter Jock| 11.21.09 @ 4:04AM

This "blue dress" moment is exactly what the AGW realists have been saying to the past 20 years. Al Snore is finally going to be exposed as the biggest hoaxster in the history of man. We will see some truly great attempts to spin this exposure. How successful they will be will rightfully depend on how it is treated in the lame stream media.

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bluecallerbytes| 11.21.09 @ 8:30AM

These "world's top scientists" scientists turned out to be doing exactly what we thought they were doing. They're not some unique life form after all, but petty human figures who have some weird vested interests in pushing the faith regardless of science.

Leo| 11.21.09 @ 8:53AM

NASA’s Latest Discovery: SUN HEATS THE EARTH (American Thincker, June 05, 2009) - Robert Calahan at NASA’s Goddard Space Center could be in big trouble -- for telling the truth. Here is a headline for an article in the Daily Tech: "NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming"... World's Largest Science Group Rejecting Man-Made Climate Fears:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogs.....cting.html

john valvasori| 11.21.09 @ 9:25PM

you can make PEOPLE believe, just keep telling them what you want them to think.

Potty Training Boys| 2.23.10 @ 11:57PM

lol don't even get me started on ACORN LOL not fair

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louis vuitton| 4.26.10 @ 10:27PM

we election in this sprawling upstate district represents a political "revolution." canada goose another ACORN revelation (presumably from the O'Keefe/Giles video duo) is coming tomorrow, and he characterized it as "devastating.