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Updated November 22, 2009

Climate Change Advocate Calls E-Mail Hacking Appalling

AP

Scientist claims documents stolen from a British research institute may be aimed at undermining talks at next month's Copenhagen global climate summit.

LONDON -- A leading climate change scientist says the leak of documents stolen from a British research institute may be aimed at undermining talks at next month's Copenhagen global climate summit.

Kevin Trenberth -- of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado -- said in an interview Sunday that hackers cherry-picked from the stolen data and distributed selected documents to try to undermine scientific consensus on man-made climate change.

Britain's University of East Anglia said hackers last week stole data from its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change.

Skeptics claim correspondence shows collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming.

Trenberth says the hackers took data out of context.

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