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Despite it involves illegal behavior, Climategate that hackers accessed and released private emails of climate scientists working at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) offers an opportunity to review questions raised by skeptics of climate change. This article ex...

Despite it involves illegal behavior, Climategate that hackers accessed and released private emails of climate scientists working at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) offers an opportunity to review questions raised by skeptics of climate change. This article examines the processes and issues of the incident, critically reviews major conflicting issues of climate science and behaviors of climate scientists, and discusses the implications of it for environmental science and environmental sociology. Above all, a lesson of Climategate is that climate scientists need to behave with absolute transparency to overcome skeptics’ attacks even if climate science involves uncertainties, which has been endorsed by the mass media and the investigation reports. The case of EPA’s research on carcinogen in the 1970s and Lavets’ concept of post-normal science suggest, however, that transparency alone will not be enough. They suggest that climate science needs to get confirmed by the independent institution and also make skeptics extended peer community with whom they communicate and collaborate for constructing more valid knowledge.

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