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Attempt to spark Climategate 2

23 November 2011

HERE we go again. Almost two years to the day after it first happened – and six days before UN climate talks kick off in Durban, South Africa – a second batch of private emails between climate scientists has been posted online.

An initial examination by New Scientist suggests most of the emails are new, but the content is similar to the 2009 release. The emails feature many of the same scientists – including prominent researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK and at US universities – debating the merits of different studies and discussing text to be…

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