Reminiscent of the ridiculous “Climategate” scandal, over 5000 hacked emails from climate scientists have been leaked just weeks before the crucial UN climate negotiations in Durban, writes Amber Jamieson.
Climategate
Monbiot: Oh, the joyful vindication!
When the Climategate scandal broke out, George Monbiot called for the main scientist involved, Phil Jones, to resign. Now following the Russell review, Monbiot admits he was wrong.
Clearing the Climategate debacle
The ‘Climategate’ scientists have finally been exonerated, following a six month investigation by Sir Muir Russell which found no problem with the honesty and rigour of the scientists, but did note that the scientists weren’t open enough about their work.
Silence from media on IPCC apology
The Sunday Times has apologised for its sham IPCC ‘Amazongate’ story. But will The Oz, the ABC, Fairfax and many other outlets do the same?
An open letter to climate sceptics from scientists
250 members of the National Academies of Science have published a letter hitting back against the assaults and “McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution” against climate scientists over the Climategate scandal.
Climate science: a field in crisis
The entire field of climate research is facing a crisis of confidence, says Der Spiegel. Can scientists save themselves in time to save the planet?
Crikey Says: Climategate exonerated. Pity no one’s listening
It never pays to withhold information, as the University of East Anglia scientists behind the Climategate non-scandal have realised. Too bad the world isn’t paying attention now.
Climategate scientists cleared of manipulating data. Hello? Anyone listening?
Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee rejected the assessment that the leaked “Climategate” emails showed researchers hid, exaggerated or fiddled the data to support the consensus view. Did you get get that?
Are you now or have you ever been a climate scientist?
Accusation of criminality against leading climate scientists takes the denialist campaign of harassment and intimidation to new lows.
Al Gore: Why it would be lovely if the climate change sceptics were right
Imagine what a burden would be lifted if the whole climate change thing was wrong! If Climategate and those climate scientist stuffs up proved that climate change was just a giant myth. Except, that’s not what the science says, writes Al Gore.
More fuel for the sceptics: climate scientists admit stuff up
Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rises due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings. Will this be another Climategate for the deniers?
Penny Wong: Climate change deniers are the cigarette supporters of yore
Penny Wong launches a scathing attack on climate change deniers, including the lies of Climategate and says the worst thing about Copenhagen’s failure was the smugness that it gave sceptics.
Climategate: The Book, written by you
The Guardian is taking crowd-sourcing to a new level: publishing the manuscript for its new book about the hacked climate change emails and asking readers to help write, edit and “peer review” the tome. Great idea or total gimmick?
Crikey Clarifier: Crikey Clarifier: how the IPCC works
This week, the IPCC was thrown into controversy when it was revealed that its long-held claim that global warming will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was incorrect. Climate law and policy expert Andrew Macintosh explains how things could go so wrong.
Were journalists right to publish the hacked Climategate emails?
Both old and new media outlets have come under fire for publishing large extracts, and directing readers to entire downloads, of the stolen Climategate emails. Did they do the wrong thing? And more importantly: did they break the law?
Climategate: the winners and losers
The Climategate leaked email scandal has rocked players on both sides of the climate change debate. As the dust settles in Copenhagen, Mediate looks at who’s left standing.
How the climate change debate just became a wall of noise
The Climategate emails, deniers and sceptics are fogging the climate change debate. It needs to clear so we can answer the critical question: how can we cut greenhouse gas emissions quickly and economically?
We are all climate sceptics now
In light of the Climategate emails, it’s time for scientists to concede that all scientific theories are open to doubt, and the science of climate change is still uncertain, writes geologist Peter Kelemen.
Hollywood conservatives: Strip Gore of his Oscar
Two conservative members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Hollywood conservatives? Really?) have called for Al Gore to be stripped of his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth in the wake of the Climategate email saga
UK Met publish 150 years of climate data to silence sceptics
With the stolen “Climategate” emails igniting anti-climate-change hysteria around the world and Copenhagen about to begin, the British Met Office has announced it will publish 150 years of climate data to prove temperatures have indeed increased.
Will the Climategate emails ruin Copenhagen?
Will the controversial climate change emails hacked from the University of East Anglia help the public learn more about the subject, or give governments an excuse not to act?
Monbiot: The CRU email leak is a crisis. Start treating it like one.
Environmentalists are being far too blase about the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia and the ensuing fallout from climate skeptics, says George Monbiot. Calling it a “storm in a tea cup” will not make it go away.
CRU emails reveal a worrying pattern of bad behaviour
Leaked email exchanges between climate scientists stolen from the University of East Anglia are causing a rather juicy online scandal, writes Sinclair Davidson.
The hacked emails causing climate sceptic chaos
Hundreds of private emails and documents from climate scientists have been unleashed into the wilds of the internet, and climate sceptics are calling their contents “the greatest scandal in modern science“. Ruth Brown investigates.
