Skeptoid #601: Hiding the Decline: Climategate Demystified

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

History, Skeptic, Social Sciences, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Skepticism, Paranormal, Science

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This infamous scandal was said to have proven global warming was all just a hoax. Umm, no.

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0:00.0	One of the arguments still made by those who deny the reality of anthropogenic climate
0:08.3	change was an event that came to be called climate gate.
0:12.4	When reams of stolen emails were claimed to contain admissions by climatologists that
0:17.8	they knew their data was fraudulent.
0:20.2	Today we're going to deconstruct the whole thing and find out who actually said what and
0:25.5	what it actually meant.
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1:24.7	Listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.
1:29.6	Hiding the decline.
1:31.9	Climate Gate demystified.
1:35.3	Nearly everyone's heard about climate gate, a scandal said to prove that climate scientists
1:40.3	deceptively changed temperature data as part of a scheme to hoax the world into thinking
1:45.6	global warming is real.
1:48.2	If you have heard of climate gate you've probably heard that scientists involved were
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