climategate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A scandal involving the theft of computer records in November, 2009 which contained information about climate change research conducted at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England.
Example Sentences
- "Over the Copenhagen climate conference lies the shadow of “Climategate,” emails and documents hacked from a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England."
- "And that raises a critical question: did Climategate play a role in this failure to act? Some observers believe it did and, as an illustration, point to the fate of the Copenhagen climate summit[…]which took place only a few weeks after the leaking of the CRU’s emails."
- "The "Climategate" computer hacking scandal that rocked the scientific world is to be made into a BBC film."