SciDev.Net: Poor communications, not science, caused the IPCC’s ‘Climategate’ debacle. Despite this, it must keep doors open between journalists and researchers. Two months ago, climate researchers working on the next global assessment for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received a letter from the panel’s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, outlining how to deal with the media. He acknowledged that after the recent media interest in the work of the IPCC, researchers are likely to …