In 2009, hackers leaked thousands of private emails between climate scientists. There was a media frenzy. Was climate change real or had these scientists been fudging the data? Rather than defending themselves, the scientists involved went silent. 

This is the story of how an email leak led the world to question if global warming was fiction, and how climate change became a matter of identity and politics rather than science.

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