#ClimateGate
Let's call this #ClimateGate
February 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Climategate is more or less the bedrock of 2026 America
September 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The Epstein Files is the reverse Climategate
oh look it's Nathan Myhrvold, the Microsoft billionaire involved with the Freakonomics climate denialism chapter, forwarding the Dr. Strangelove-esque Lowell Wood's forwarding of a Steve Koonin climate denial column to Jeffrey Epstein. Most recently, Koonin was on the Trump DOE climate-denial group
February 3, 2026 at 11:42 PM
A thread on Victoria Stodden, who gleefully (blog.stodden.net/2009/11/30/t...) blogged about and misrepresented the stolen "climategate" email correspondences back in Nov 2009
February 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM
"Getting Murdoched: climategate" | Article by Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson for #PearlsAndIrritations: johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07...
Getting Murdoched: climategate
This edited extract of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson examines Murdoch's destructive anti-climate change campaign.
johnmenadue.com
July 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Back in 2010, there was a fuss called "Climategate" wherein some right-winger hacked into the private emails of a climate research institution & pored through them, looking for sentences & even individual phrases that could be plucked out of context and made to look sinister.
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hey everyone, let’s refer to this as “climategate-2”
Reading the emails from the DOE Climate Working Group and am glad to see I continue living rent-free in their heads
January 23, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The right-wing tactic of sifting through huge caches of emails and pulling individual words and phrases out of context in order to stoke controversy ... was not born with the Twitter Files. Remember the DNC leak? Or even farther back, remember "climategate"? It's a longstanding tactic.
The Twitter Files was a glimpse of the future of right-wing political warfare, and its success offered a template for providing red meat to an audience with an insatiable appetite for grievance. Now, it seems we might get a Twitter Files for U.S. govt www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
www.theatlantic.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The wild thing here is that it is pretty clear how to weather a bad-faith mob attack

- Don't give a single inch
- Senior staff particularly protect and defend individual victims
- Actively attack the mob as bad-faith, racist, liars, etc

Climategate really taught us this more than a decade ago
Academia had had 10 years to prepare for being gamergated and hasn't, because (like journalism) it doesn't understand how to counter bad faith
“Look at all these fancy professors who think they know more about academia than me, a self-professed expert with an undergrad degree!”
March 22, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Getting impeccable 'Climategate' vibes from that part.
Debunking Misinformation About Stolen Climate Emails in the "Climategate" Manufactured Controversy
The international controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot of heat.
www.ucs.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
> 100 corporations

> looks inside

> a bunch of state-owned-enterprises primarily

one thing that is underrated is how geopolitics and ecology are intertwined (which is why Russia attacked climate scientists during climategate - one of those things you don't hear pro-Russian types talk about)
I have a spicy take as well that the "100 corporations" bit caused such a *massive* issue on dealing with global warming as a whole by assuming its the corporation fault and not also the fact of you know, people who use them,
July 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM
How many of the world’s awful “thought leaders” in how many areas have ties to Epstein?

This thread even digs up people who took part in the climategate smear.
Have any journalists each out to Bjorn Lomborg to ask him about his now-known dealings with Jeffrey Epstein?
February 23, 2026 at 1:32 AM
It's Climategate all fuckin' over again. God damn, the way we learn nothing
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The real climategate is that the "duck curve" doesn't look anything like a duck. Constellation-ass naming
November 20, 2024 at 3:33 AM
There is a *reason* climategate didn't happen a second time. Even with slimy PR guys like Michael Shellenberger constantly trying to stomp on women / poc working in climate and energy.

We know the playbook and we regularly punch back with much greater force.
March 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
"Climategate, die Hockeyschläger-Kurve und der Kampf gegen die Leugner (Climategate, the hockey stick curve and the fight against the deniers)" by Elena Erdmann for Zeit Online
www.zeit.de/wissen/2024-...?
Desinformation: Climategate, die Hockeyschläger-Kurve und der Kampf gegen die Leugner
Der Klimaforscher Michael Mann wurde jahrelang von Verschwörungsbloggern verfolgt. Vor Gericht hat er nun gewonnen. Nur hat die Lügenkampagne ihren Zweck längst erfüllt.
www.zeit.de
February 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
We’ve seen this over climate change from the start. It was the key to ‘ClimateGate’, for those with long memories. It was used over Covid time and again for those with vested interests. It’s very sad for a good journalist to let himself be used here, at best.
August 2, 2026 at 6:37 AM
JB says he loves the NIH. Weird then that he would promote climategate style conspiratorial nonsense about it...
June 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If you're wondering wtf climategate is - basically a bunch of leaked emails from a UK climate research group that revealed almost nothing, but got framed as major revelations that climate science is a hoax, and many media outlets ate it up too
Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?
A series of leaked emails was leapt on by climate-change deniers to discredit the data, but their efforts may have only slowed the search for solutions
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2024 at 11:16 AM
He misinterpreted some leaked slack logs and he’s doing Climategate with the lab leak theory
July 22, 2023 at 10:43 PM
i'm having flashbacks to "climategate". none of this is ever about the actual data, is it
February 24, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The tactics of Climategate nonsense keep getting use.
May 24, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Anyway - this is where we are now, pushing 1.5 decades after ClimateGate. And it makes me *happy*.

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/06/30/e...
Inside Exxon’s playbook
How America's biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change
unearthed.greenpeace.org
March 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Schulbuch-Manipulation und Climategate-Skandal: Wie beim Thema Klimawandel getäuscht wird
Schulbuch-Manipulation und Climategate-Skandal: Wie beim Thema Klimawandel getäuscht wird
Der Biologe Markus Fiedler erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen zentrale Klimadarstellungen: manipulierte Datensätze, irreführende Temperaturgrafiken und der Climat...
nius.de
May 13, 2026 at 6:20 AM