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The shocking disclosure of British scientists’ private correspondence on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15) is turning into a tale of espionage. “The climatologists’ e-mails were pilfered from Russia,” headlines Mladá Fronta DNES on the second day of the summit. According to investigators, the hackers cracked the entry code of the British climate researchers’ server from the Siberian city of Tomsk. So the Czech daily advances the theory – now taken up by the British press – of a plot hatched by Moscow. Seeing as Russia is among the world’s leading natural gas and petrol producers, as well as being one of the biggest polluters, it would clearly serve its interests to discredit a conference that seeks to clinch an international deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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