New at Reason: Ron Bailey on the Tragedy of Climategate

December 1, 2009

Leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have provoked a growing scandal in climate change science that has been dubbed Climategate. The real tragedy of Climategate is that it impairs humanity’s ability to assess and react properly to a potentially huge problem. It has put a cloud of doubt over the validity of some considerable body of climate change research. Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey describes how, in their zeal to marginalize and stifle their critics, an insular band of climate researchers has damaged the very science they sought to defend.

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