” We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to
be kept under wraps.

We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents.”

I wouldn’t be too wedded to the ‘Russian Hackers’ line.

I’m beginning to think this was an inside/outside combo.

I’m suspecting a Russian FTP server was used to negate the possibility that the CRU’s political/bureaucratic allies in the UK and EU would ‘pounce’ on whatever server this data was on. No my friends, that data was put out of AGWers ‘quick’ reach. True, the original FTP site is silent, but not quickly enough.

The irony that one of the torrent sites up-loading that zip file is,’The Pirate Bay’, is too delicious for words.

BTW — the CRU has admitted that the data leak was real; all of the CRU’s passwords have been canceled. The counter-spin in the UK papers is already begun.

PS – - a bit of triva, all the emails have been assembled into a 2000 page pdf file by Steve McIntyre.

PPS – - who’s bringing the popcorn? I can’t wait for the data and codes to be published.