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</font></div><div>=</div><div>This bullying of climate-science sceptics must end</div><div>When did demonising your opponents become so acceptable? Published at May 16 2014</div><div>
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</div><div>‘Witch-hunt’ forces out climate scientist</div><div>Former Chancellor Lord Lawson A leading climate scientist has resigned from the advisory board of a think-tank after being subjected to what...</div><div>Published at May 15 2014</div><div>
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</div><div>Crackdown ordered on climate-change sceptics</div><div>Dissident ministers and the BBC are told to fall into line by a Commons committee report and reduce the airtime... Last updated at April 2 2014</div><div></div><div>Forecasters crack formula to predict long-range weather</div><div>The breakthrough may have a substantial impact on the economy, allowing power companies and wind farms to anticipate...</div><div>Last updated at April 2 2014</div><div>
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</div><div>UN issues call for action over ‘catastrophe of climate change’</div><div>Extreme weather would increase the threat of disease, ruin food stocks, drive millions of people into poverty and... Last updated at April 1 2014</div><div>
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</div><div>Climate change is hitting food production, IPCC warns</div><div>Rising global temperaturesare affecting all kinds of crops and pushing prices higher, scientists conclude in latest... Last updated at March 31 2014</div><div>=</div><div>
</div><div>Hulme, professor of climate and culture at King’s College London, condemned fellow scientists for “harassing” Lennart Bengtsson, and gave warning that climate science had become too political.</div><div>
</div><div>Professor Bengtsson resigned this week from the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate sceptic think-tank, after being subjected to what he described as McCarthy-style pressure from fellow academics.</div><div>Professor Hulme, who helped to lead the team that produced</div><div>
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</div><div>Research which heaped doubt on the rate of global warming was deliberately suppressed by scientists because it was “less than helpful” to their cause, it was claimed last night.</div><div>In an echo of the infamous “Climategate” scandal at the University of East Anglia, one of the world’s top academic journals rejected the work of five experts after a reviewer privately denounced it as “harmful”.</div><div>Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading and one of the authors of the study, said he suspected that </div><div>
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</div><div>Crackdown ordered on climate-change sceptics</div><div>Dissident ministers and the BBC are told to fall into line by a Commons committee report and reduce the airtime... Last updated at April 2 2014</div><div>
</div><div>Ministers who question the majority view among scientists about climate change should “shut up” and instead repeat the Government line on the issue, according to MPs.</div><div>
</div><div>The BBC should also give less airtime to climate sceptics and its editors should seek special clearance to interview them, according to the Commons Science and Technology Committee. Andrew Miller, the committee’s Labour chairman, said that appearances on radio and television by climate sceptics such as Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, should be accompanied by “health warnings”.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr Miller likened climate sceptics to the Monster Raving Loony Party and</div><div> </div><div>
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Thursday, 21 April

Today we reported on a letter sent to the editor of The Times newspaper criticising its "distorted" climate coverage.

Sent by leading scientists and UK climate advisors, they call out the newspaper for frequently publishing articles tied to Lord Lawson's climate sceptic GWPF think tank.

Also this week we take a look at those countries which might not show up to sign the Paris deal tomorrow.

And, now for some good news, the government was forced to back down on its plans to effectively muzzle academic researchers and scientists under its controversial 'anti-lobby' clause.

The Times Is ‘Losing Trust’ By Publishing Climate Denial Content From The GWPF, Say Leading Scientists

A group of eminent scientists and UK climate advisors have criticised The Times newspaper for its “poor quality” and “distorted” coverage of climate change in a letter to the editor, John Witherow.

The letter, reported by the Guardian, argues that the frequent publishing of climate science denial articles linked to Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is “particularly concerning”. Read more here.

            
                
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Today <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461337242572_16120" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-ddirity-jdldtjdit-e/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we reported on a letter </a>sent to the editor of The Times newspaper criticising its "distorted" climate coverage.</font></span>

Sent by leading scientists and UK climate advisors, they call out the

newspaper for frequently publishing articles tied to Lord Lawson's

climate sceptic GWPF think tank.</font></span>

Also this week we take a look at <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461337242572_16083" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-ddirity-jdldtjdit-s/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">those countries which might not show up</a> to sign the Paris deal tomorrow.</font></span>

And, now for some good news, the government was <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461337242572_16020" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-ddirity-jdldtjdit-g/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forced to back down</a> on its plans to effectively muzzle academic researchers and scientists under its controversial 'anti-lobby' clause.</font></span></p>

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                                    </font></span><p class="yiv6061737533article-title" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px;" align="left"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-ddirity-jdldtjdit-w/" style="text-decoration: none;">The Times Is ‘Losing Trust’ By Publishing Climate Denial Content From The GWPF, Say Leading Scientists</a></font></span></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></span><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461337242572_16086" class="yiv6061737533article-content" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px;" align="left">
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A group of eminent scientists and UK climate advisors have criticised

The Times newspaper for its “poor quality” and “distorted” coverage of

climate change in a letter to the editor, John Witherow.</font></span>

The letter, reported by the Guardian, argues that the frequent

publishing of climate science denial articles linked to Lord Lawson’s

Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is “particularly concerning”. <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461337242572_16092" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-ddirity-jdldtjdit-yd/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Read more here.</a></font></span></p>

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