Email leaks give climate change sceptics ammunition

Updated November 26, 2009 10:04:11

As Pacific leaders prepare for the United Nations Copenhagen climate change meeting next month, a computer hacker has sparked a new round of debate between climate change activists and sceptics.

The hacker broke into a prominent British climate research centre and posted more than a thousand private emails online. The sceptics have jumped on suggestions that the researchers may have massaged their data.

Presenter: Barney Porter
Speaker: Kevin Trenberth, climatologist at the US Centre for Atmospheric Research and former head of Australia's National Climate Centre; William Kininmonth, former head of Australia's National Climate Centre