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A ‘Climategate’ Victory Lap, Part II

By | 12.01.09 | 2:46 pm

Under pressure from global warming skeptics after some of his hacked and leaked emails revealed potentially compromising exchanges with other scientists, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at England’s University of East Anglia is stepping down pending an investigation, The Associated Press reports.

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Inhofe Launches ‘Climategate’ Investigation

By | 11.24.09 | 5:29 pm

The office of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, just issued a press release announcing the launch of an investigation into “Climategate,” the quasi-scandal involving the release of more than a thousand hacked emails that reveal agenda-driven behavior on the More…

Is ‘Climategate’ Really the Game-Changer Skeptics Say It Is?

By | 11.23.09 | 5:33 pm

On Friday, the news broke that hackers had obtained and released thousands of email exchanges between climate scientists at England’s University of East Anglia. Climate change skeptics pounced on the leak, dubbing it “Climategate” and proclaiming that the questionable communications between the scientists proved that global warming was based More…

Bill for Palin Email: $45 Million

By | 10.17.08 | 2:23 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — MSNBC reports that Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration has said it would cost $45 million to get copies of emails messages sent between her administration and the McCain campaign, those sent to her husband, Todd Palin, and messages between state employees and the National Park Service (on More…

Palin’s Missing Emails

By | 09.08.08 | 5:21 pm

Via Huffington Post. From the “Where Have We Heard This Before?” file, Mother Jones reports that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is withholding more than 1,000 emails from its response to an open records request from Andrée McLeod, a “self-described independent government watchdog.”

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