Ethics of Science and Technology - Transhumanism, Mad Scientist, Climatic Research Unit Email Controversy, Climatic Research Unit Documents (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: Transhumanism, Mad scientist, Climatic Research Unit email controversy, Climatic Research Unit documents, Technoethics, Criticism of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Implications of nanotechnology, Neuroethics, Computer ethics, Cyberethics, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Ethics of terraforming, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, DNS hijacking, National Core for Neuroethics, AOL search data scandal, Student Pugwash USA, Hippocratic Oath for scientists, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine, Scott Reuben, List mining, Infosphere, Eduard Pernkopf, Technology for peace, International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility, Ethics of technology, Military medical ethics, Information ethics, Technocriticism, Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics, Pharmacological Calvinism, International Student/Young Pugwash, Technorealism, Internet ethics. Excerpt: The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (also called "Climategate" by critics of the theory of global warming, and by some of the news media) began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). On 20 November, two weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change, an unknown individual or group breached CRU's server and copied thousands of emails and computer files to various locations on the Internet. The story first broke in the blogosphere, with columnist James Delingpole popularising the term "Climategate" to describe the controversy. Climate sceptics alleged that the emails revealed scientists manipulating climate data and suppressing their critics. Climate sceptics said that the documents showed evidence that global warming was a scientific conspiracy. The traditional media picked up the story as ...