{"id":34454,"date":"2011-04-24T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-true-story-of-climategate-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:44:47","slug":"the-true-story-of-climategate-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-true-story-of-climategate-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"The True Story of ClimateGate | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2011\/04\/history-of-climategate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d4b8a_MoJoCover-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17426\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Trading profiles of Michael Mann and Stephen McIntyre, and managing somehow to be funny about the whole thing, Kate Sheppard over at <em>Mother Jones <\/em>has published a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2011\/04\/history-of-climategate\">wonderful narrative<\/a> of &ldquo;ClimateGate&rdquo; and the lessons learned. As someone who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/culturelab\/2010\/07\/the-climate-scandal-that-never-was.html\">reviewed<\/a> one of the leading books on the subject&ndash;Fred Pearce&rsquo;s <em>The Climate Files<\/em>, which really loses you in the weeds&ndash;I urge you to read Kate&rsquo;s story and have no such fear. Here&rsquo;s how it starts off:<\/p><blockquote><p>IT&rsquo;S DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE how a guy who spends most of his time looking at endless columns of temperature records became a &ldquo;fucking terrorist,&rdquo; &ldquo;killer,&rdquo; or &ldquo;one-world-government socialist.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s even harder when you meet Michael Mann, a balding 45-year-old climate scientist who speaks haltingly and has a habit of nervously clearing his throat. And when you realize that the reason for all the hostility is a 12-year-old chart, it seems more than a little surreal.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Read on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2011\/04\/history-of-climategate\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/RFJm5O_1tECpd7XQo_mF5z01hKw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d4b8a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/RFJm5O_1tECpd7XQo_mF5z01hKw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d4b8a_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d4b8a_agXwEIQob7E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d4b8a_763YyZfayEA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading profiles of Michael Mann and Stephen McIntyre, and managing somehow to be funny about the whole thing, Kate Sheppard over at Mother Jones has published a wonderful narrative of &ldquo;ClimateGate&rdquo; and the lessons learned. As someone who reviewed one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-true-story-of-climategate-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}