climategateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Climategate

1. A scandal involving the theft of computer records in November, 2009 which contained information about climate change research conducted at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England.
   • 2009 December 11, Laura Blenkinsop, “Climategate': A primer on the email scandal”, in National Post‎^[1]:

     Over the Copenhagen climate conference lies the shadow of “Climategate,” emails and documents hacked from a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England.

   • 2019 November 9, Robin McKie, “Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     And that raises a critical question: did Climategate play a role in this failure to act? Some observers believe it did and, as an illustration, point to the fate of the Copenhagen climate summit […] which took place only a few weeks after the leaking of the CRU’s emails.

   • 2021 June 9, “University of East Anglia 'Climategate' scandal to be turned into film”, in BBC News‎^[3]:

     The "Climategate" computer hacking scandal that rocked the scientific world is to be made into a BBC film.

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