This story has legs a mile long. Apparently the only people who think the statements in these emails were "taken out of context" are the sheeple who were at the end of the line when critical thinking skills were being handed out. The IPCC, the CRU, and even individual climate scientists know how bad this is.
Legs a mile long? Here's one leg that gets knocked out from under your wildest dream.
http://cop15post.com/2009/12/08/news/opening-address-rounds-on-climate-sceptics/And support for the scientists was paramount for Pachauri, when he addressed the recent ‘Climategate’ scandal in his opening speech.
Last month a number of emails of climate researchers at the University of East Anglia were hacked and posted on the internet. They appeared to suggest that scientists were colluding to suppress evidence that did not support their theories of climate change.
Climate sceptics pounced on the news as proof of a global conspiracy and the head of the research unit in question has stepped down while an investigation takes place.
But Pachauri said today that that some people were willing to go to great lengths to discredit the IPCC, despite it having a consistently transparent record and having complied[sic] its previous assessment reports on the back of the work of thousands of climate scientists.
“The internal consistency from multiple lines of evidence strongly supports the work of the scientific community, including those individuals singled out in these email exchanges, many of whom have dedicated their time and effort to develop these findings in teams of Lead Authors in the series of IPCC Assessment reports during the past 21 years,” Pachauri said.
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