Original sentence: Commentators described the incident as a "public relations disaster", with public opinion polarised and sharply divided along political orientation.Soon after, allegations that climate scientists had manipulated and suppressed data arose in the climate sceptic blogosphere, and were picked up by traditional media.The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (commonly known as "Climategate") began in November 2009 when a server was breached at the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research Unit (CRU), one of the research centres that constructs various global temperature and precipitation analyses.Thousands of emails and computer files were copied to various locations on the Internet
Edited sentence: Soon after the data theft, the climate sceptic blogosphere circulated conspiratorial claims alleging malfeasance by climate scientists.The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (commonly known as "Climategate") began in November 2009 when a server was hacked at the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research Unit (CRU), one of the research centres that constructs various global temperature and precipitation analyses.The incident was described as a "public relations disaster" for scientists, with public opinion polarised and sharply divided along political orientation.The traditional media reported on these complaints just before negotiations over climate change mitigation began during the Copenhagen Summit, leading scientists and commentators to speculate that the claims were designed to undermine the conference.Thousands of emails and computer files were copied from CRU's servers and transmitted to many locations throughout the Internet