"Hacked emails were planned and well-funded"

Should it be called 'Climategate'? Some environmentalists seem to want to shy away from the -gate suffix. I say embrace it. Because where there is a -gate, there must be Plumbers:

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the theft of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate skeptics.

Ypersele speculates that hacked emails were done by a well-funded, sophisticated group with the aim of destroying public confidence in the science of man-made climate change.

The fact that the emails were first uploaded to a suspicious website in Russia was an indication that the people behind the controversy were paid, he said.

"It's very common for hackers in Russia to be paid for their services."

"If you look at that mass of e-mails a lot of work was done, not only to download the data but it's a carefully made selection of e-mails and documents that's not random at all. This is 13 years of data and it's not a job of amateurs." Source