2012年10月22日,6名意大利科学家和1名政府官员因为2009年的拉奎拉地震事件被裁定犯有过失杀人罪并被判入狱,这一判决震惊了全世界的科学界。在秋季会议(指2012年12月在美国旧金山举行的AGU秋季会议,译者注)日程中新增加了一个特别会议,由国家海洋和大气管理局国家气候数据中心的John Bates和布里斯托尔大学 On October 22, 2012, six Italian scientists and a government official were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to jail for the earthquake in L’Aquila in 2009, a decision that shocked the world’s scientific community. A special meeting was added to the autumn conference (AGU Fall Conference in San Francisco, December 2012) on the agenda of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climate Data Center by John Bates and the University of Bristol