Climategate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
climate + -gate, popularized by climate change denialist James Delingpole.
Proper noun[edit]
Climategate
- A scandal involving the theft of computer records in November, 2009 which contained information about climate change research conducted at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England.
- 2009 December 11, Laura Blenkinsop, “Climategate': A primer on the email scandal”, in National Post[1]:
- Over the Copenhagen climate conference lies the shadow of “Climategate,” emails and documents hacked from a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England.
- 2019 November 9, Robin McKie, “Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?”, in The Guardian[2]:
- And that raises a critical question: did Climategate play a role in this failure to act? Some observers believe it did and, as an illustration, point to the fate of the Copenhagen climate summit […] which took place only a few weeks after the leaking of the CRU’s emails.
- 2021 June 9, “University of East Anglia 'Climategate' scandal to be turned into film”, in BBC News[3]:
- The "Climategate" computer hacking scandal that rocked the scientific world is to be made into a BBC film.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
scandal
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Further reading[edit]
Climatic Research Unit email controversy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
