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Climate-Gate Is The Work Of A Whistle-blower

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Excellent demonstration by Lance Levson, a system and networks administrator with fifteen years experience, that the climate-gate data could not have been the work of a random hacker but was most likely that of a whistle-blower publishing documents previously collected pursuant to a freedom of information act (foia) request- After a lengthy technical analysis of the sources of the email and data, he concludes:

“I suggest that the contents of ./documents didn’t originate from a single monolithic share, but from a compendium of various sources.

For the hacker to have collected all of this information s/he would have required extraordinary capabilities. The hacker would have to crack an Administrative file server to get to the emails and crack numerous workstations, desktops, and servers to get the documents. The hacker would have to map the complete UEA network to find out who was at what station and what services that station offered. S/he would have had to develop or implement exploits for each machine and operating system without knowing beforehand whether there was anything good on the machine worth collecting.

The only reasonable explanation for the archive being in this state is that the FOI Officer at the University was practising due diligence. The UEA was collecting data that couldn’t be sheltered and they created FOIA2009.zip.

It is most likely that the FOI Officer at the University put it on an anonymous ftp server or that it resided on a shared folder that many people had access to and some curious individual looked at it.

If as some say, this was a targeted crack, then the cracker would have had to have back-doors and access to every machine at UEA and not just the CRU. It simply isn’t reasonable for the FOI Officer to have kept the collection on a CRU system where CRU people had access, but rather used a UEA system.

Occam’s razor concludes that “the simplest explanation or strategy tends to be the best one”. The simplest explanation in this case is that someone at UEA found it and released it to the wild and the release of FOIA2009.zip wasn’t because of some hacker, but because of a leak from UEA by a person with scruples.”

Danish Climate-Gate

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From the Washington Examiner:

“Police and authorities in several European countries are investigating scams worth billions of kroner, which all originate in the Danish quota register. The CO2 quotas are traded in other EU countries.

“Denmark’s quota register, which the Energy Agency within the Climate and Energy Ministry administers, is the largest in the world in terms of personal quota registrations. It is much easier to register here than in other countries, where it can take up to three months to be approved.

“Ekstra Bladet reporters have found examples of people using false addresses and companies that are in liquidation, which haven’t been removed from the register.

“One of the cases, which stems from the Danish register, involves fraud of more than 8 billion kroner. This case, in which nine people have been arrested, is being investigated in England.

“The market for CO2 trade has exploded in recent years and is worth an estimated 675 billion kroner globally.”

The Carbon Credit Scam – Another Public-Private Boondoggle

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“Dr Alison Doig, senior climate-change advisor at Christian Aid, says, ‘Live’s investigation highlights exactly what’s wrong with this flawed system, which is focused only on exchanging carbon credit globally, with no accounting for other environmental or social damage. All carbon credits are doing is making some companies rich, while doing nothing to prevent global pollution. It needs either abolition or total reform.’”

That’s a quote from a piece on how the much-touted carbon-credit trading scheme actually works on the ground in combating pollution. The idea of the scheme is to give industries a cap below which they have to operate. To exceed the cap, they have to purchase carbon credits from manufacturers in the developing world, who receive them in exchange for every cut in emissions they make.

The credits trade in private and international exchanges like any security, one ton of CO2 emission being equivalent to one Certified Emission Reduction (CER).

Carbon trading was one of the fastest growing sectors in 2006 and 2007, doubling in value, but like everything else, when the market took a hit, it took one too. With manufacturing output falling, emissions also fell, and with them carbon, making it more profitable for companies to pollute and buy the credits rather than cut back on emissions from fossil fuels.

And how does the scheme work on the ground? As Carbon Trade Watch documents in this revealing account by Nadene Ghouri, a company can actually be receiving tax-payer funded “green reward points” from the UN, and using the money for operations that are highly polluting – which is  what GFL (Gujarat Fluorochemicals) was doing.