CLIMATEGATE!  The Climate Research Unit (CRU) computer system at the University of East Anglia in the UK was hacked and over a thousand sensitive emails and many important data files were made available on the internet. The emails show that the CRU scientists manipulated data to support the global warming agenda of the IPCC. The CRU provides a temperature index used by the IPCC and climate scientists.

*** Recent analysis suggests the files were leaked, not hacked. See here.***

The Telegraph UK reports that the emails from some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory suggest:

"Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more."

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See "Climategate: the Final Nail in the Coffin of 'AGW'?" from the Telegraph here.

See Climate Depot for numerous Climategate articles and analysis here.

See "CRU has Apparently been Hacked – Hundreds of Files Released" from Watts Up With That here.

See "Warmist conspiracy exposed?" from Heraldsun here.

See  "Leaked FOIA Files 62 mb of Gold" from The Air Vent here.

See "Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails" from the Examiner here.

See "Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline" from American Thinker here.

See "CLIMATEGATE: Caught Green-Handed!" by Lord Christopher Monckton here.

See "The Death Blow to Climate Science" by  Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball here.

See Rex Murphy video here. 

See BBC's CRU programming error video here.

See "Why Climategate is so Distressing to Scientists" by John P. Costella here.

See a listing of Climategate articles here. 

See a searchable dataset of the emails here.

See extensive excerpts from and links to the most scandalous Climategate emails here. 

See full timeline of ClimateGate, laying out the analysis, graphs, emails and history of the scandal here.

The entire set of hacked Hadley CRU files, containing > 60MB of documents and e-mails can be downloaded from here.