Climategate

How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement, Part I

Today’s Must Read at Big Journalism: Peer-to-Peer Review: How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement.

It was triggered at the most unlikely of places. Not in the pages of a prominent science publication, or by an experienced muckraker. It was triggered at a tiny blog – a bit down the list of popular skeptic sites. With a small group of followers, a blog of this size could only start a media firestorm if seeded with just the right morsel of information, and found by just the right people. Yet it was at this location that the most lethal weapon against the global warming establishment was unleashed.

The blog was the Air Vent. The information was a link to a Russian server that contained 61 MB of files now known as Climategate. Within two weeks of the file’s introduction, the story appeared on 28,400,000 web pages.

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One Response to “How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement, Part I”

1. Series complete: How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement | CLIMATEGATE says:

   January 12, 2010 at 6:26 am

   [...] days ago we alerted you to Part I of Big Journalism’s terrific 3-part series, How ‘Climategate’ Marks the [...]

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