Obama vs. 'Climategate'

With a global-warming scandal casting doubt on the science of climate change, can Obama convince anyone to go greener?    &

At the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month. President Obama will pledge major cuts in U.S. carbon emissions and try to convince other nations to do the same. He may have a harder time of it, now that leaked e-mails from climate change scientists have suggested that humans may not be as culpable when it comes global warming as was generally believed. As a new poll indicates, fewer Americans believe global warming is mankind's fault. Wiill "Climategate" derail Obama's plan for greener days? (Watch a Fox report about an investigation into Climategate)

The hackers did this to sabotage Copenhagen: It’s no coincidence that the controversial e-mails and data were leaked "right before the Copenhagen debate," says one of the hacked scientists, Kevin Trenberth, to the AP. The hackers’ goal was to undermine the scientific consensus on man-made climate change. "I personally feel violated."

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