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Exaggerated claims undermine drive to cut emissions, scientists warn
Exaggerated and inaccurate claims about the threat from global warming risk undermining efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and contain climate change, senior scientists have told The Times . Environmental lobbyists, politicians, researchers and journalists who distort climate science to ...
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Drumbeat: November 1, 2009
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — ... It does all this, by law, in a nonpartisan, neutral fashion. The only political appointee is the director: Newell. Debate Flares on Limits of Nature and Commerce in Parks The furor over the oyster lease has also drawn in partisans across the country because it plays into an old debate: Are the national parks primarily for preserving untouched wilderness, or for preserving the historic human imprint on the land, too? Exaggerated claims undermine drive to cut emissions, scientists warn Exaggerated and ...

Climate science: inaccurate press threatening accurate policies
European Tribune — Past weekend, the Times featured the following article: Environmental lobbyists, politicians, researchers and journalists who distort climate science to support an agenda erode public understanding and play into the hands of sceptics, according to experts including a former government chief scientist. Excessive statements about the decline of Arctic sea ice, severe weather events and the probability of extreme warming in the next century detract from the credibility of robust findings about climate change, they said. Such claims can easily be rebutted by critics of global ...

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