'Climategate 2.0': Inside the 'dynamite' new email leaks

The hacker behind a 2009 dump of emails between climate-change scientists strikes again. Will the new crop of 5,000 emails reignite the scandal?

A demonstrator outside the Capital during a 2007 Climate Change Protest
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Two years after an unknown hacker released about 1,000 private emails between climate scientists, he or she struck again Tuesday, dumping a collection of about 5,000 more emails and documents from Britain's University of East Anglia. As with the original "Climategate" dump, this batch appeared via a Russian server a few days before a United Nations climate summit. Climate change skeptics are already digging through the emails, looking for correspondence that casts doubt on the scientific consensus that the earth is warming due to human activity. Have they hit pay dirt with "Climategate 2.0"?

What ever came of Climategate 1.0?

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