As revelations in the “Climategate” scandal continue to undermine the theory of manmade climate change, the chief scientific advisor for former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair is claiming that "foreign spies" may be responsible for the leak of the embarrassing documents.

A report was posted at Independent.co.uk about claims mad by David King, who served as Blair’s advisor for seven years:

In an interview with The Independent, Sir David suggested the email leaks were deliberately designed to destabilise Copenhagen and he dismissed the idea that it was a run-of-the-mill hacking. It was carried out by a team of skilled professionals, either on behalf of a foreign government or at the behest of anti-climate change lobbyists in the United States, he said.

However, King is not content merely to generically blame “a foreign government”; instead, he appears prepared to lay the blame at the door of the Russian government, in part, apparently, because of an effort by the hackers themselves to leave a trail of evidence leading back to Russia. According to the Independent:

Experts have suggested that loading the email file onto a Tomsk computer server may have been a clumsy attempt to lay a trail to the door of the Russian intelligence service, which has since denied any involvement in the hacking incident. Some commentators in Russia have said that China had more to gain from destabilising the Copenhagen conference than Russia.

Sir David said, however, that it was not possible to dismiss the possibility of Russia's involvement. "If it was a job done on behalf of a government, then I suppose there is the possibility that it could be the Russian intelligence agency," he said.

"If it was a maverick group then I suppose it could be the Americans, but I am hazarding a guess as much as anyone else. The only thing is, I've worked within government and I've seen this in operation," Sir David added. "It was a sophisticated and expensive operation. In terms of the expense, there is the American lobby system which is a very likely source of finance. Right now, the American lobbyists are a very likely source of finance for this, so the finger must point to them," he said.

The confusing "blame game" that has emerged in the various theories of King and others with a blur of references to China, Russia, and "a maverick group" of Americans connected to “lobbyists” makes for a fairly complicated set of conspiracy theories.

However, even if the notion of a shadowy group of “skilled professionals” laboring on behalf of “anti-climate change lobbyists” were proven correct, what does not change is the fundamental problem confronting adherents of the theory of manmade climate change: the very existence of the leaked e-mails. The identity of the hackers and their motivations for releasing the e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia does not negate the facts contained within the e-mails, and those facts are devastating to the global-warming theory. As any good scientist knows, ultimately the facts are what matters, and the motivations of the hackers behind Climategate does not change the fact that the CRU e-mails authored by some of the most significant proponents of the climate-change theory have done much to effectively undermine their argument in the minds of the public.

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Steve Janke said:

	David King retracts foreign espionage story Sir David has retracted his fiction of lobbyists footing the bill for a shadowy Russian cyber-spy squad. http://stevejanke.com/archives/297707.php
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William Holder said:

	Climategate Thank you for keeping us up to date on this matter - the main stream media simply isn't doing their job.
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RockyRoad said:

So whos' intelligent now? Sounds like the only people with any intelligence in this whole sordid affair are the Russians. They are way too smart to leave a trail of breadcrumbs right to their door. And, unlike the Britts and Americans, they are way too smart to try to pull off the scam of the century when the Internet can evaluate and analyze the latest breaking news within hours. You really have to ask yourself what benefit the "climate scientists" would gain for perpetrating a massive fraud, and the answer is clear: Money! Professional Fame! Political Power! What do the Russians (or, for heaven sakes WHOMEVER the whistle blower/hacker represented) have to gain by showing the earth's warming is merely a natural response to the Little Ice Age? Money? Hardly! Professional Fame? Nope! Political Power? Nyet. Just watch all those that bowed to the idol of anthropogenic global warming wiggle and squirm as their cult is cut asunder by the truth. It's actually rather comical to see the lengths to which they will go to justify and excuse themselves. They're completely pathetic. They've lost all semblance of logical argument. They've also lost the public support they spent decades carefully cultivating. Time for some heads to roll.

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Russ Walsh said:

The Facts of the Case remain the Same Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a d**n who released the documents. Historically unprecedented crimes have been committed, and the who, what, why or anything else about how the evidence of those crimes became public is absolutely irrelevant. What IS relevant is that the crimes were committed, by individuals, governments, government agencies, the mainstream media, 'scientists', institutions such as the Nobel Committee and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The list is extremely long. Focusing on who uncovered the emails is a red herring. The focus here is to pursue and bring to justice the many, many perpetrators of these unprecedented crimes. What occurred was an act of war carried out against the West by assorted rag-tag leftist ideologues using stealth, cunning, deceit, deception, lying, manipulation, bullying, intimidation, harrassment and coercion instead of a tradional army of the 1918 or 1939 variety. But an act of war it nevertheless was, the intention of which was to get the West to sign the communistic Copenhagen Treaty, thereby irrevocably ensnaring the West in the tentacles of centrally controlled, one-world government. Who cares how the emails and documents were released! Justice, here, means rounding up the global warming crooks - or "bedwetters", as Lord Christopher Monckton so elequently calls them in retaliation for them calling anyone daring to question them "deniers".

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Flu-Bird said:

	Abolish the IPCC This whole IPCC should be totaly abolished this whole theory of man made global warming isa lie and a hoax and the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITY and ADDACEMY AWARDS judges should be canned and AL GORES two undeserved awards taken away
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John A. Jauregui said:

Take Responsibility and Take Action Climate Change gravy train. Are you angry about this obvious RICO Act fraud and the national media's complicity in the cover-up, misinformation, reframing and misdirection of the issue and the related “carbon derivatives” market Obama’s Administration is spinning up? Why pay for propaganda? Take responsibility and take action. STOP all donations to the political party(s) responsible for this fraud. STOP donations to all environmental groups which funded this Global Warming propaganda campaign with our money, especially The World Wildlife Fund. DEMAND they take you off their donors’ mailing list. They have violated the public trust. KEEP donations local, close to home.

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Victory67 said:

	Hacked to death Although curiosity is killing me wondering why the emails were released in this way, I am think it was well intentioned. We may never know who did it, but the reasons why are less important then the contents of the information. To sabotage the Copenhagen convention? And what if it did? A fraud is a fraud.
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