Climategate’s 10th Anniversary: The Stain Continues

Climategate’s 10th Anniversary: The Stain Continues“I gave up on Judith Curry a while ago. I don’t know what she thinks she’s doing, but it’s not helping the cause, or her professional credibility.”
—Dr. Michael Mann, Climategate email, May 30, 2008

“In the end, Climategate ended my academic career prematurely…”
—Dr. Judith Curry, November 12, 2019

This month marks the ten-year anniversary of Climategate. The episode was more than just “embarrassing and a public relations disaster for science,” as one sympathizer stated at the time. The leaked emails revealed a mainstream intellectual cartel trying to hype climate alarm by methodological tricks and resorting to secrecy and outright bullying (see selected quotations below).

Were lessons learned among the guilty? Probably not. As Paul Matthews wrote on the 5th anniversary:

via CanadaFreePress.Com

Enjoy this article? Read the full version at the authors website: https://canadafreepress.com/