Archive by date | February 2010

New climate centre email incident

Cross-posted from Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond Climate change researchers in the UK have been subjected to a new cyber-attack. Last month staff at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, part of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), were sent fake emails that purported to come from Nicholas Stern, the head of the institute. “The attacker did not gain access to any e-mail messages. The attack was identified very quickly by members of the school’s IT security team who took steps to prevent it from causing any damage,” says Bob Ward, policy  … Read more

Climate-gate, scepticism, and Pachauri’s potboiler

Cross-posted from Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond Just in case you think that the IPCC/climate-gate story has petered out in the last few days… Phil Jones, the University of East Anglia scientist whose stolen emails caused the worldwide ‘climate-gate’ kerfuffle, has told The Sunday Times he contemplated killing himself. “I did think about it, yes. About suicide,” he says. “I thought about it several times, but I think I’ve got past that stage now.” Full post on The Great Beyond…  … Read more

Quotes of the day

Cross-posted from Mark Peplow on The Great Beyond “Sanjay put his arms around her and kissed her, first with quick caresses and then the kisses becoming longer and more passionate.” UN climate change supreme Rajendra Pachauri gets physical in a line from his novel, Return to Almora, published last month. The Telegraph has some more – ahem – graphic extracts. “We need to work differently, making more data available and making our assumptions clear. Everything needs to be more and more open and we will be striving to do that in the future.” Phil Jones, former director of the Climatic  … Read more