IN THE grand saga of political battles over climate research, there is no event more pivotal, or more damaging, than what has come to be called “climategate” – the late-2009 theft and exposure of a trove of emails from the (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Fred Pearce’s The Climate Files, based on his for The Guardian newspaper in London, is the first book-length attempt to cover the furore.
Some scientists faulted the Guardian series when it appeared, and similar objections apply to this book. (who is a consultant for …
