ANYONE could have hacked UEA’s servers.

There was plenty of motivation to do so even without being paid for it.

He’s a moron who doesn’t know the culture of hackers. Very few of them are for profit. I highly doubt this was motivated by profit.

All he is doing is making allegations without any real proof.

A real hacker is untraceable meaning this hack could have originated from anywhere.

It is true that world surface temperatures have declined since 1998. However – as Andrew is surely aware – the temperature in 1998 was particularly high, due to the strong activity of El Nino in that year.

So temperatures since then have been lower than 1998, but the last decade has been hotter than any other ten year period on record.

We are happy to report all points of view, but in this instance, a climate change denier is quoting data in a selective way which is more obviously questionable than the alleged behaviour of CRU researchers.

Peter Judge, Editor

In science the burden of proof is on the theory.

The theory must provide the proof.

If the theory makes a prediction, which it must to not simply be a hypothesis, and the prediction is wrong then the theory is discarded.

That is part of the scientific method.

The AGW theory predicts that CO2 causes global warming.

CO2 is higher now then it was in 1998.

Average global temperature has been declining since 1998

The prediction made by the theory is wrong therefore the AGW theory must be discarded.

QED.

It is called the scientific method. It only takes one wrong result to discard a theory.

‘No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.’ Albert Einstein

Please see also:

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climategate.html

For a satirical look at the climategate computer programming:

Anthropogenic Global Warming Virus Alert.

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i64103