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Hacked Emails Don't Disprove Climate Change: A Short Review of a Global Scientific Consensus
Dec 11, 2009
The climate change scientists whose emails were recently hacked are living their worst nightmare. Like many of their colleagues, these scientists had long been frustrated by a handful of vocal global warming skeptics. The hacked emails gave skeptics a new opening to sow doubts about global warming, just as media attention turned to the Copenhagen climate summit.
These scientists spoke in some private emails of resisting Freedom of Information Act requests and boycotting journals that provide an ongoing platform for the skeptics' views. Neither the hacking nor the censorship should be condoned. But when this dust-up settles, a few things will be certain.
Read the full article at our blog, ESG Insight