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• Greenpeace: Facebook has a hand in global warming

  Greenpeace has charged that Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others are contributing to global warming by using coal to power data centers for their cloud-based services. The charges are dramatic --- but are they on target?

  By Preston Gralla | 31 March, 2010 11:33

  Tags: cloud computing, Facebook, global warming, Greenpeace

• Data-leak lessons learned from the 'Climategate' hack

  In case you've missed it, someone recently dumped a large cache of e-mail files and documents from the University of East Anglia University's prestigious Climactic Research Unit onto the 'Net. The CRU is one of the leading climatology research institutions, and its data and models provide much of the infrastructure on which the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is based.

  By Johna Till Johnson | 26 November, 2009 07:41

  Tags: anthropogenic global warming (AGW), climategate, global warming, security

• Global warming research exposed after hack

  An anonymous hacker has posted private e-mails, files and other documents belonging to a noted climate researcher, sparking an international debate between skeptics of global warming and those who see it as an urgent problem.

  By Robert McMillan | 21 November, 2009 12:27

  Tags: Copenhagen, global warming, hack, security