In 2009 a Climatic Research Unit computer server at the University of East Anglia was hacked and thousands of emails and computer files were uploaded to a Russian server . Ebell said the hacked emails " make it clear that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an organized conspiracy dedicated to tricking the world into believing that global warming is a crisis that requires a drastic response . " Ebell has stated that environmentalists believe " humans are evil , the use of human power is always bad ; everything we do to nature is bad . " Ebell views forced energy conservation as an infringement on American rights ; he has stated : " Energy is fundamental to mobility , to comfort . When you start limiting people 's access to energy , you limit their ability to live the way they want , to make choices . " Ebell compared his efforts and those of his colleagues to a " David versus Goliath struggle " against " corrupt environmentalism and big government " , and has said that the " environmental movement is not an objective , well-intentioned movement that cares about saving the planet " , but one which emerged from the New Left , and which always proposes the same solutions regardless of the issue : lower material standards of living , more government control , and more power for the technocratic elite
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