Climategate: The Real Story
Climategate: The Real Story
This chapter takes a look at the real story behind the so-called climategate. On November 17, 2009, a hacker operating via an anonymous server located in Turkey, uploaded a large file, FOIA.zip, to the RealClimate site. The title was a thinly veiled allusion to the barrage of frivolous and vexatious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demands issued against the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the months preceding. The hacker released a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents via e-mail. This chapter discusses the allegations and disinformation campaign launched by climate change deniers based on the CRU hacking incident and how climategate became a vehicle for a more widespread and sustained smear campaign against climate science and climate scientists, including the author.
Keywords: climategate, climate science, climate change, hacker, RealClimate, Freedom of Information Act, University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit, disinformation, hacking
Columbia Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
