The Climate Files; The battle for the truth about global warming

9. The environment writer , Fred Pearce will be launching his book ‘The Climate Files’ and a panel including Dr Myles Allen (University of Oxford) will debate the issues surrounding the University of East Anglia ‘Climategate’ emails.

In November 2009 it emerged that thousands of documents and emails had been stolen from one of the top climate science centres in the world. The emails appeared to reveal that scientists had twisted research in order to strengthen the case for global warming. With the UN's climate summit in Copenhagen just days away, the hack could not have happened at a worse time for climate researchers or at a better time for those who reject the scientific consensus on global warming. Yet although the emails sparked a media frenzy, the fact is that just about everything you have heard and read about the University of East Anglia emails is wrong. They are not, as some have claimed, the smoking gun for some great global warming hoax. They do not reveal a sinister conspiracy by scientists to fabricate global warming data.

To coincide with the launch of his new book, The Climate Files, the veteran environment journalist Fred Pearce discusses how the emails raise deeply disturbing questions about the way climate science is conducted, about researchers' preparedness to block access to climate data and downplay flaws in their research.

This will then be followed by a panel discussion involving Dr Myles Allen (University of Oxford)and Dr Adam Corner (Cardiff University).

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