What you call the controversy over e-mails stolen from climate researchers at Britain's University of East Anglia depends on what you think about global warming. To skeptics, who've long suspected global warming is a fraud, thernterm for the incident is "Climategate," with its intimations of scandal and cover-up. Advocates of action on warming call it "Swifthack"-a reference to the loaded 2004 character attacks on Senator John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth-suggesting it's an invented scandal propagated by conservatives and the media that does nothing to change the scientific case for global warming. Climate-change advocates are right on the science-but skeptics may be right on the politics.
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