CLIMATEGATE: THE AGE OF MIRACLES HAS PASSED

15 YEARS BEFORE DENOUNCING THE 'HOCKEY STICK' CURVE IN THE MANN V STEYN TRIAL, STEPHEN MCINTYRE DECLARED:

           "A MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED"   

WHEN PILES OF HACKED HADLEY CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER FILES & EMAILS SURFACED AS IF ON CUE TO EMBARRASS A UN GLOBAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE. SKEPTICS INSISTED IT WAS AN INSIDER LEAK,BUT NO ONE WAS EVER CHARGED.

NOW THE COLD CASE HAS WARMED UP. 

THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE  REPORTS A HACKER HAS BEEN CONVICTED  OF CONSPIRACY, WIRE FRAUD, AND AGGRAVATED IDENTITY THEFT AND THE PRIVATE INTELLIGENCE COMPANY THAT EMPLOYED HIM HAS CONFESSED TO  TAKING  MILLIONS FOR ATTACKS ON CLIMATE  SCIENCE:

"The Climatic Research Unit  (CRU) email controversy ^[2][3] began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the University of East Anglia by an external attacker,^[4][5] who copied thousands of emails and  files... several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change.

The story was broken by climate change denialists,^[6][7] who argued... that global warming was a scientific conspiracy... ^]Columnist James Delingpole popularised the term "Climategate" to describe the controversy.^[13] public relations experts said that the release was a smear campaign intended to undermine the climate conference...

At about the same time, a short comment appeared on climate sceptic Stephen McIntyre's Climate Audit website saying that "A miracle has happened."^[23]      

NOVEMBER 2023

Hacker-For-Hire Sentenced 

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “From his home in Israel, Aviram Azari played a major role in orchestrating and facilitating an international hacking-for-hire spearphishing campaign.  The conspiracy targeted individuals and companies in the U.S. and abroad, resulting in the theft of data and netting Azari over $4.8 million in criminal proceeds.  

One of AZARI’s hacking Projects was focused on targeting individuals and organizations involved with climate change advocacy.  Some of the hacked documents that were stolen from various of the victims’ online accounts were leaked to the press, resulting in articles relating to the New York and Massachusetts Attorneys Generals’ investigations into Exxon Mobil Corporation’s knowledge about climate change and potential misstatements made by Exxon regarding what it knew about the risks of climate change...  Clients of AZARI’s Israeli private intelligence company paid a $4.8 million over a nearly five-year period for managing the intelligence gathering and spearphishing campaign. 

 AZARI executed his crimes deliberately and over an extended period primarily for his own self-enrichment.  Some of AZARI’s thousands of victims have described the devastating personal, financial, and reputational impact AZARI’s crimes had on them.  Victims have described the persistent and relentless targeting of them and their associates, as well as the theft of their identities and personal data, as “psychological assault” that has caused them “anxiety, paranoia, depression, sleeplessness, and fear,” and the victims have expressed continued concerns for their personal safety.

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AZARI, 52, of Kiryat Yam, Israel, pled guilty to one count of  In addition to his prison term, AZARI was sentenced to three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay forfeiture of $4,844,968.