UK hack reveals climate science’s ugly side, little more

Late last week, a collection of e-mails and documents began appearing on a variety of websites, purportedly a selection of a much larger cache of material obtained when hackers gained entry to the UK’s Climatic Research Unit. All indications are that the documents are legitimate, and they reveal the scientists behind them as fully human: snarky, dismissive, prone to using colloquialisms instead of technical terms, and protective of their data—perhaps unethically protective. A lot of the material sounds very familiar to people working in scientific fields, but the response suggests that the e-mails may expand the gap between scientists and the public in this contentious field.

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UK hack reveals climate science’s ugly side, little more

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