Climategate

Proper noun

Climategate

1. 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.
   • 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.2009 December 11, Laura Blenkinsop, “Climategate': A primer on the email scandal”, in National Post, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2013
   • 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.2019 November 9, Robin McKie, “Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?”, in The Guardian