The United Nations has jumped into the controversy involving leaked emails on climate change data from the University of East Anglia, with a senior UN official saying Friday that his agency would investigate the matter. The news may prompt a new series of blog posts, tweets and emails from climate change skeptics, who have used the scandal — and the Web — in recent days to advance claims of a conspiracy against their views among the media and scientific community. Scientists, in turn, may have to take some supplemental courses in communications in an Internet-centric world.
To see climategate unfold through tweets, check out the pro's, con's, related topics, and corresponding websites as the story unfolds at http://feeltiptop.com/climategate/.
One truly "tech" facet of this story is how MUCH the web is driving "Climategate" despite near-total silence from the mainstream media. Someone has developed a "Tiger Woods Index" to calculate the discrepancy between Internet and Old Media coverage... "Climategate" has TEN TIMES as much web coverage as broadcast coverage, as compared with Tiger's midnight accident.
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The UN, Climategate and the Viral Web's Hot Air
Posted by: Renay San Miguel December 4, 2009 11:58 AMThe United Nations has jumped into the controversy involving leaked emails on climate change data from the University of East Anglia, with a senior UN official saying Friday that his agency would investigate the matter. The news may prompt a new series of blog posts, tweets and emails from climate change skeptics, who have used the scandal — and the Web — in recent days to advance claims of a conspiracy against their views among the media and scientific community. Scientists, in turn, may have to take some supplemental courses in communications in an Internet-centric world.