Climategate

English

Etymology

From climate +‎ -gate, popularized by climate change denialist James Delingpole.

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.
   • 2009 December 11, Laura Blenkinsop, “Climategate': A primer on the email scandal”, in National Post‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2019 November 9, Robin McKie, “Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2021 June 9, “University of East Anglia 'Climategate' scandal to be turned into film”, in BBC News‎^[3]:

     The "Climategate" computer hacking scandal that rocked the scientific world is to be made into a BBC film.

Related terms

• -gate

Translations

scandal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣候門 / 气候门 (qìhòumén)

• Finnish: Climategate
• Japanese: クライメートゲート
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Denialgate
• watergate

Further reading

• Climatic Research Unit email controversy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia