Climategate Emails Disrupt Public Trust in Climate Change Science
- Title
- Climategate Emails Disrupt Public Trust in Climate Change Science
- Description
- In November 2009, just before the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December, over 1000 emails between scientists from the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia. These emails proved to be rude and dismissive, but were far from evidence of data-tampering that climate skeptics tried to make them out to be. With all the confusion and hype, however, many people were convinced the scientific consensus was considerably less confident about climate change than was accurate, and the "scandal" resulted in a dark cloud over climate science for a long time afterwards.
- Date of Article or Event
- November 2009 – November 2009
- Item sets
- Public Perceptions of Climate Change