Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind the leaking of the notorious British ‘Climategate’ emails which threaten to undermine tomorrow’s Copenhagen global warming summit.
An investigation by
The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the
explosive hacked emails from the University of East Anglia
were leaked via a small web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia.
The CRU is internationally recognised as one of the most important sources of information on the rise in global temperatures.
Its data is relied on by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body which co-ordinates the world response to climate change.
But now the CRU’s findings are under suspicion.
Russia – one of the world’s largest producers and users of oil and gas – has a vested interest in opposing sweeping new agreements to cut emissions