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		yters on Sept 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the oil industry made us doubt climate change one of the engineers hired to clean up the climate model code leaked a bunch of internal emails and files he also left personal messages expressing his dislike of the codebase :D

triceratops on Sept 22, 2020 [–]

Lol. The state of the codebase was the scandal?

yters on Sept 22, 2020 | [–]

no i just thought that was an amusing part of the leak

search for "FOIA2011.zip" to read them yourself

scandal was contents of the email, which demonstrated attempts to shut down critics

triceratops on Sept 22, 2020 | | [–]

Did they?[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...

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