CLIMATEGATE - COP15, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF POLITICS INFLUENCING SCIENCE

Many experts are skeptical about the work of the Copenhagen summit, particularly as the fallout from Climategate continues to roil the community. Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the CATO Institute  says that scientists who advocate global warming are interpreting data in a way that will let them influence policy.

SCEPTICS CHALLENGE COPENHAGEN SUMMIT

A group of sceptics is meeting in the Danish capital to counterbalance the main event.

Professor Cliff Ollier, a Professor of Geology from the University of Western Australia who focuses on ice caps and glaciers, came to Copenhagen to have his say on the connection between glaciers and the rising sea level.

“The whole mechanism of glacial flow has nothing to do with the rising temperature or carbon dioxide,” says the professor.

Lord Christopher Monckton is yet another one of the sceptics. He has been talking to the delegates to think again about the facts surrounding climate change.

“What I am already doing is talking to individual delegations here in Copenhagen and saying to them: Look, whatever pressure you are under from your environmental groups and your younger people and your governments, pay heed to the science and not the propaganda, except that there is no climate problem caused by humankind and go home without any agreement,” stresses Monckton. “In particular, don’t you dare set up a world government or anything like it and don’t you dare to impose worldwide rationing and taxing in trading, because that would amount to the biggest tax in human history and we do not want that,” he says.

Earlier, RT spoke to one of the sceptics, Craig Rucker, from the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. He outlined the claims put forward by those who say global warming is a natural phenomenon, not caused by man.
“We are asking for a complete investigation into the Climategate issue,” Rucker said.

While UN officials are optimistic about the summit, the critics there say they want more science – and less politics.

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