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Seriously...

The Hack That Changed the World: Ep 5 - The Sceptics

Seriously...

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1885 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Who was behind the 2009 hack and leak of emails that fuelled climate change sceptics?

Gordon Corera tracks down some of the sceptics engaged in a long-running battle with the climate scientists over data, and he considers the legacy of the events of 2009.

Producer: Sally Abrahams Editor: Richard Vadon

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.

0:05.0

The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.

0:09.0

And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.0

The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.5

The IRA inmates who found a way.

0:14.5

I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path

0:19.5

through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.

0:25.0

The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.

0:28.5

Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:39.0

Hello, I'm Gordon Carrera and this is seriously from Radio 4.

0:43.7

In this final episode of the hack that changed the world, I'm looking at where our trail

0:48.9

ends and the legacy of the events of 2009.

0:55.0

The phone rang and it was someone ringing me from New Zealand, asking me about my emails. I had no idea what they were talking about.

1:05.0

In 2009 hackers stole thousands of emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia and posted them online.

1:15.6

They were using this as the dirty evidence that there was something wrong with the science.

1:20.0

Climate sceptics picked out certain phrases to suggest the scientists were

1:25.6

exaggerating the extent of global warming. Twelve years on from the hack, the

1:30.7

culprit has still not been identified.

1:33.0

I felt there were dark forces at work here,

1:36.0

so you don't know what you're dealing with.

1:38.0

It was a game changer.

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