Entries for 'Climategate'
By Lawrence Solomon, author of The Deniers
Published May 21, 2010
Four years ago, when I first started profiling scientists who were global warming sceptics, I soon learned two things: Solar scientists were overwhelmingly sceptical that humans caused climate change and, overwhelmingly, they were reluctant to go public with their views.
No longer.
- Solar scientists are increasingly conveying a clear message on the chief cause of climate change: It’s the Sun, Stupid.
- The Big Chill on freedom of expression that scientists once faced when discussing global warming is becoming a Big Thaw.
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By Lawrence Solomon, author of The Deniers
Published May 05, 2010
The State of Virginia has decided to investigate possible wrong doing by Michael Mann of Climategate fame...Virginia's investigation is the first by a government on this side of the Atlantic into possible wrongdoing related to climate change. Other government investigations are likely.
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By Lawrence Solomon, author of The Deniers
Published April 20, 2010
Fewer and fewer people accept the argument that global warming is a threat to the planet, according to the latest Rasmussen Poll, and even those who fear climate change don’t necessarily blame human activities. Meanwhile, those who had been agnostic on global warming are deciding that global warming is a natural phenomenon.
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By Lawrence Solomon, author of The Deniers
Published April 15, 2010
To allay public concern over Climategate — the unauthorized release of some 3000 documents from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University — the university established two independent inquiries to attend to the widespread view that science had been corrupted through the distortion and destruction of data, through cover-ups, and through the perversion of the peer review process.
The first of these inquiries has neatly dismissed all concerns of impropriety through the oversight of its chair, Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool, a man of impeccable credentials in the climate change field. Lord Oxburgh is chair of the multinational Falck Renewables, a European leader with major windfarms in the U.K., France, Spain and Italy, and he’s chair of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, a lobby group which argues that carbon capture could become a $-trillion industry by 2050.
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