This November marks the fifth anniversary of Climategate – when millions of emails were illegally hacked and spun as evidence that the world’s leading global warming researchers were engaged in a dark conspiracy. Six inquiries exonerated the scientists. Over the coming weeks DeSmog UK will be running a series of articles revisiting the faux scandal to explore the tragic and the farcical.
Gold mining guru Steve McIntyre has long been accused of taking cash from oil companies to fund his climate denial investigations website Climate Audit.
McIntyre sparked the international Climategate scandal five years ago this month when his blog (Read more…)