{"id":25800,"date":"2014-05-17T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25800"},"modified":"2014-05-17T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T14:22:42","slug":"even-the-times-thinks-the-latest-climate-scandal-is-damaging-to-the-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/17\/even-the-times-thinks-the-latest-climate-scandal-is-damaging-to-the-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the Times<\/em> thinks the latest climate scandal is damaging to the cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Times<\/em> article titled “Scientists in Cover Up of ‘Damaging’ Climate View<\/a>” is behind the usual paywall, but Steven Hayward<\/a> has a longer excerpt that gets the key element across:<\/p>\n

Research which heaped doubt on the rate of global warming was deliberately suppressed by scientists because it was \u201cless than helpful\u201d to their cause, it was claimed last night.<\/p>\n

In an echo of the infamous \u201cClimategate\u201d scandal at the University of East Anglia, one of the world\u2019s top academic journals rejected the work of five experts after a reviewer privately denounced it as \u201charmful\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading and one of the authors of the study, said he suspected that intolerance of dissenting views on climate science was preventing his paper from being published. \u201cThe problem we now have in the climate community is that some scientists are mixing up their scientific role with that of a climate activist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Professor Bengtsson\u2019s paper challenged the finding of the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the global average temperature would rise by up to 4.5C if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were allowed to double. It suggested that the climate might be much less sensitive to greenhouse gases than had been claimed by the IPCC in its report last September, and recommended that more work be carried out \u201cto reduce the underlying uncertainty\u201d.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Professor Bengtsson, the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, said he accepted that emissions would increase the global average temperature but the key question was how quickly.<\/p>\n

He added that it was \u201cutterly unacceptable\u201d to advise against publishing a paper on the ground that the findings might be used by climate sceptics to advance their arguments. \u201cIt is an indication of how science is gradually being influenced by political views. The reality hasn\u2019t been keeping up with the [computer] models. Therefore, if people are proposing to do major changes to the world\u2019s economic system we must have much more solid information.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Times article titled “Scientists in Cover Up of ‘Damaging’ Climate View” is behind the usual paywall, but Steven Hayward has a longer excerpt that gets the key element across: Research which heaped doubt on the rate of global warming was deliberately suppressed by scientists because it was \u201cless than helpful\u201d to their cause, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65,16],"tags":[459,245,240],"class_list":["post-25800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-environment","category-science","tag-censorship","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6I8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25801,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25800\/revisions\/25801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}