Climategate

name

Etymology

From climate + -gate, popularized by climate change denialist James Delingpole.

  1. derived from κλίμα
  2. derived from clima
  3. derived from climat
  4. inherited from climat
  5. suffixed as climategate — “climate + gate

Definitions

  1. A scandal involving the theft of computer records in November, 2009 which contained…

    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.

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

The neighborhood

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