The Who and Why of Climategate
June 2010 By Robert Shoup
One of the key lessons to be learned from Climategate, is that the pursuit of an agenda can very quickly lead to the corruption of the scientific method. To understand how the scientific method was so easily corrupted by agendaism, it is useful to examine the various agendas in play (the why), and how they impacted those involved in the climate change debate (the who).