1/15/13, "2012 was in top 10 warmest on record," BBC
"US scientists say that 2012 was among the 10 warmest years the world has experienced since 1880.
Nasa researchers said it was the ninth warmest year while
experts from another American agency said it was the tenth....
They were equally certain carbon dioxide had been the principal driver of the rise
over the past 50 years.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said that their analysis of temperature data from a global network of weather stations indicated that the average temperature for 2012 was 0.57C above the 20th century average....
"This past year, unlike the US they were not a record globally but they certainly were warm," said Thomas Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Centre."...
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50 researchers signed a letter published in the journal Science
saying cutbacks in NOAA measurements
could render useless other scientific data collected by the US and other nations. "NOAA has stopped measuring greenhouse gas levels at a dozen ground stations, eliminated some aircraft monitoring and cut the frequency of remaining measurements in half."...
9/4/12, "NOAA: Budget woes force a halt to climate monitoring at 12 ground stations," eenews.net, Lauren Morello
"The federal government is cutting back its ability to monitor greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists are crying foul....
The cuts come at a time when governments are pushing for more detailed information about sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. Scientists say the decision to shrink NOAA's monitoring network -- the world's largest -- threatens their ability to provide those answers.
"The reality is that countries are making commitments that will cost millions, if not billions, of investment in climate-related work, and governments want more certainty about what's happening, what other countries are doing," said Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project. "We barely have enough to provide what a lot of agencies are asking for. The prospect of having fewer sampling stations around the world is a frightening one.""...
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NASA systems were hacked 13 times in 2011 alone, mission-critical projects were accessed in breaches that "could compromise U.S. national security:”…
11/14/12, “NASA Suffers “Large” Data Breach Affecting Employees, Contractors, and Others,“ spectrum.ieee.org, R. Charette
According to the NASA message posted at SpaceRef.com, “On October 31, 2012, a NASA laptop and official NASA documents issued to a Headquarters employee were stolen from the employee’s locked vehicle. The laptop contained records of sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) for a large number of NASA employees, contractors, and others. Although the laptop was password protected, it did not have whole disk encryption software, which means
the information on the laptop could be accessible to unauthorized individuals."...
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3/2/12, “NASA says it was hacked 13 times last year,” Reuters
“NASA said hackers broke into its computer systems 13 times last year, stealing employee credentials and gaining access to mission-critical projects in breaches that could compromise U.S. national security....
He (Paul Martin, the agency's inspector general) said the agency discovered in November that hackers working through a Chinese-based IP address broke into the network of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
He said they gained full system access, which allowed them to modify, copy, or delete sensitive files, create user accounts for mission-critical JPL systems and upload hacking tools to steal user credentials and compromise other NASA systems. They were also able to modify system logs to conceal their actions, he said.
"Our review disclosed that the intruders had compromised the accounts of the most privileged JPL users, giving the intruders access to most of JPL's networks," he said.
In another attack last year, intruders stole credentials for accessing NASA systems from more than 150 employees.
Martin said the agency has moved too slowly to encrypt or scramble the data on its laptop computers to protect information from falling into the wrong hands.
Unencrypted notebook computers that have been lost or stolen include ones containing codes for controlling the International Space Station as well as sensitive data on NASA's Constellation and Orion programs and Social Security numbers, Martin said."
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Ed. note: The report may not specifically say climate data was tampered with but it said
hackers were able to access 'other NASA systems' in addition to JPL, and "modify, copy, or delete sensitive files." NASA systems were known to be vulnerable for quite some time.
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11/15/12, “NASA to encrypt data after its latest laptop loss,” BBC
"The Nasa Watch blog, which comments on affairs at the agency, had previously criticised it for a series of other data losses.
It noted that the organisation had been warned in 2009 that it was not taking enough steps to sufficiently protect information
and had reported the loss or theft of 48 of its mobile computing devices between April 2009 and April 2011.
This is not the first time Nasa has promised action to address the problem.
In March, Nasa administrator Charles Bolden told the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Commerce that he was going to sign a directive ordering all portable devices to use encryption, after
acknowledging the
agency was “woefully deficient” when compared to other government departments.”
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12/5/12, "Stinging (NAS) report says NASA lost, lacks real sense of direction," AP, Seth Borenstein
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NASA Chief Bolden
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