. Instead, I'm talking about the fake scandal in November 2009 that would come to be known as, and which arguably served as a training ground, a test run, for the more recent hacking of our presidential election.
Ten years ago, hackers with links to Russia and Wikileaks broke into an email server in the U.K., and released stolen emails in a massive, carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign designed to impact the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Summit of December 2009.
And so citing"Climategate" as a reason for inaction has become a simple"tell" in the climate discourse. Those who do it are acting in bad faith. They are not honest actors expressing true belief. They are dissemblers intentionally misrepresenting the science and the scientists to score political points on behalf of the fossil fuel interests whose bidding they are doing.
In the decade since, we have now largely overcome outright climate denial. The debate has, at least in honest quarters, moved