Climategate’s guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs? by Jeet Heer, The Globe and Mail

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Exploring the increasingly influential community of online bloggers who take aim at climate-change science

Much remains murky about the scandal dubbed Climategate, which involves the release last fall of e-mails leaked or stolen from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Initial accounts focused on e-mails that seemed to show scientists deliberately distorting research to make the danger of global warming appear worse than it is. Others have suggested this could be a misreading of the e-mails, most of which, though not all, simply suggest working professionals wrangling over contentious issues and occasionally slagging their critics.

The question of scientific misconduct is still under investigation at East Anglia. But what’s clear is that the scandal – one of the biggest to hit the science community in the past decade – wouldn’t still be hanging so heavily over climate-change researchers if it weren’t for bloggers such as Stephen McIntyre.

Source: theglobeandmail.com

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