The climate trap

摘要

In the grand saga of political battles over climate research, there is no event more pivotal, or more damaging, than what has come tornbe called "climategate" - the late-2009 theft and exposure of a trove of emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Fred Pearce's The Climate Files, based on his 12-part investigative series for The Guardian newspaper in London, is the first book-length attempt to cover the furore.