Monday, March 12, 2007

Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'

"Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.

They say the debate on globalwarming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions.

Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.

One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further globalwarming."

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While it might seem ridiculous to deny mankind's role in globalwarming, it's probably even more ridiculous to post death threats to people simply for questioning a well known fact. If they want to ignore the signs it's really up to them, just as it is up to us to ignore them.

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