James Delingpole was one of the chief architects of a manufactured scandal in late 2009 that was called “Climategate,” in which hackers stole emails from some climate scientists at the University of East Anglia and leaked them. Climate deniers such as Delingpole then published out-of-context excerpts from those emails to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change, which were then spread by conservative media. Before joining the right-wing website Breitbart, Delingpole wrote for several British newspapers and tabloids.