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How the Climategate Email Hack Laid the Foundations for the Fake News Era
Read time: 8 minsDeSmog UK’s first editor, Brendan Montague, shares his personal experience of investigating climate science deniers at the time of Climategate.Tags: ClimategateNigel LawsonChristopher MonktonS....
Here Are 3 Climategate Myths That Have Not Aged Well
Read time: 7 minsExcessive media coverage of an email hacking tilted the outcome of a critically important event against the victims of the crime....
DeSmog Was Created to Combat Climategate-Style Misinformation. We’re Still Going
Read time: 4 minsDeSmog was launched in January 2006 to call out the public relations industry for working with fossil fuel industry clients to...
Where Are the Ring-Leaders of the Manufactured Climategate Scandal Now?
Read time: 12 minsTen years ago, leading climate scientists at the University of East Anglia had a mass of email correspondence stolen from their...
Why the Climategate Hack was More Than An Attack on Science
Read time: 5 minsFrom its tense soundtrack and flickering images of suspicious-looking wires, you could mistake the BBC’s latest documentary on climate change for...
Comment: We Need to Have a Prime-Time Debate on the Climate Emergency
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