Green Affected King Prawn
| 02 February 2010
Sir David King was in the news yesterday claiming the CRU leak that launched Climategate was not only a hack, but was performed by a sinister cabal of US skeptics or foreign governments:
Sir David suggested the email leaks were deliberately designed to destabilise Copenhagen and he dismissed the idea that it was a run-of-the-mill hacking. It was carried out by a team of skilled professionals, either on behalf of a foreign government or at the behest of anti-climate change lobbyists in the United States, he said. “A very clever nerd can cause a great deal of disruption and obviously make intelligence services very nervous, but a sophisticated intelligence operation is capable of yielding the sort of results we’ve seen here,” Sir David said.
David King is not just a dyed-in-the-wool weather hysteric, he’s not even a ‘clever nerd’. His conspiratorial accusations were nothing more than speculation. Worse, the alarmist pilchard didn’t even have a clear picture of what the known facts were before he rushed to spout his facile opinion in the press:
…it emerged that he had been misinformed about key facts. One of his grounds for believing a high-powered team of professionals were behind the leak, he said, was that there had been a wide spread of emails going back decades “between very different people”. He told the Independent: “The emails date back to 1996, so someone was collecting the data over many years.” In fact, as UEA confirmed today, all the files and emails were archived on a single backup server on the Norwich campus. Once access was gained, it would have been simple to copy all the material.
King is the embodiment of what is wrong with Big Green these days. He is only interested in casting about looking for someone, anyone, to blame for the wheels falling off the global warming hoax. He has further be-clowned himself with more unfounded hysteria, if he wants to blame someone for speeding the warmer’s credibility decline, he should look in the mirror.
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