- Professor Lennart Bengtsson’s study was rejected and branded ‘harmful’
- This sparked accusations that scientists are censoring findings
- The 79-year-old is one of the world’s most eminent climate scientists
- Last week, he resigned from the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s advisory council
David Rose
The Daily Mail [UK]
17 May 2014
Ground-breaking climate research that was controversially ‘covered up’ suggests the rate that greenhouse gases are heating the Earth has been significantly exaggerated, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Renowned Swedish scientist Professor Lennart Bengtsson of Reading University was at the centre of an international row last week when his study was rejected by a leading science journal after it was said to be ‘harmful’ and have a ‘negative impact’.
The rejection sparked accusations that scientists had crossed an important line by censoring findings that were not helpful to their views.
Prof Bengtsson further claims one of the world’s most recognised science publications also decided not to use his research findings, because, he said, they were considered to be ‘uninteresting’.
Prof Bengtsson’s critical paper was co-authored with four colleagues. It focused on the growing gap between real temperatures and predictions made by computers…
…Prof Bengtsson, 79, is one of the world’s most eminent climate scientists. Last week he was forced to step down from the council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the sceptical think-tank set up by Lord Lawson…
…Bengtsson’s treatment is not encouraging. As a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, he is one of the world’s most eminent experts.
Yet last week, he was accused of having joined the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan and the Flat Earth Society, and of peddling ‘junk science’ – all because he accepted a place on the council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Some climate scientists have long been warning that the planet is approaching a tipping point. Future historians may one day reflect that we reached it last week.
So great was the pressure, he feared for his health, and decided to resign. The most cursory look at the GWPF’s website makes clear it does not ‘deny’ any aspect of the science of global warming, nor that this has happened in response to human activity…
Read the complete article at The Daily Mail.
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Environmental shakedown through bastardized application of science, policy, and education Disgruntled ex-federal employees found a way to bilk taxpayers out of millions of dollars using the flawed Endangered Species Act
Over a 3-year period, 2009-2012, Department of Justice data show American taxpayers footed the bill for more than $53 million in so-called environmental groups’ legal fees—and the actual number could be much higher. The real motivation behind the Endangered Species Act (ESA) litigation, perhaps, could have more to do with vengeance and penance than with a real desire to protect flora and fauna…
Update: Study: Environmentalists Have ‘Substantially Worse than Average’ Carbon Footprints
…Something that comes as a shock to a lot of our users: The average person who says they care about climate change actually has a substantially worse than average footprint. Generally that’s because they tend to have a bit more money, and they tend to be people who like to think of themselves as multicultural and like to get out and see the world. Which means that they’re flying around a lot, and all that flying generally outweighs any other green lifestyle choices that they’ve made…
Update 2: It’s the Climate of Propaganda That Should Worry Americans
…The broadcast networks helped the White House climate push leading up to the release of the report, as the report was released and after it. No analysis. No journalist sat there and tried to poke holes in the assessments. No one was pointing out that the previous predictions have been wrong. And the only criticism came from liberal journalists wondering what took Obama so long.
They aren’t news people, they are propagandists…
Update 3: Skeptical Scientists Debunk White House Global Warming Report
A group of 15 scientists and meteorologists have put forward a scathing rebuttal to the Obama administration’s recent climate report which said the U.S. is already being harmed by global warming.
Scientists skeptical that mankind is causing the Earth’s climate to change say that such claims are based on false theories and flawed models. The White House report is a “masterpiece of marketing” that is trying to scare people into action, scientists said….
