Copyrighted Image? DMCA | The evil Mr. Murdoch: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, sixteen prominent global warming deniers with scientific backgrounds -- such as tobacco apologist Richard Lindzen of MIT and ExxonMobil executive Roger Cohen -- concede that manmade carbon dioxide emissions have a warming effect on the planet, but argue that the effect is "small" and nothing to "panic" about. All the other scientists in the world who believe the science are part of a conspiracy to intimidate people like themselves, they write, just as Soviet biologists who believed in genes were "sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death."
As climate scientist Peter Gleick reports at his Forbes.com blog, those other scientists include 255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences who wrote a letter about the scientific threat of climate change for the Wall Street Journal -- but were turned down... |