Now that the authorities have confiscated the computers of a few contrarian bloggers to see whether they can find evidence of who hacked the University of East Anglia's e-mail servers, Lord Monckton is incensed! INCENSED, I tell you! He says he's going to go after the climate scientists whose e-mails were stolen and have them prosecuted for fraud. Why him? Because the bumbling police don't know much about climatology, so they need help to understand the "fraud".
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