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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/ngreen211.xml

Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'
By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:24am GMT 11/03/2007



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 global warming 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.

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

"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and
institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor.

"I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be
sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations
of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal."

Last week, Professor Ball appeared in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a
Channel 4 documentary in which several scientists claimed the theory of
man-made global warming had become a "religion", forcing alternative
explanations to be ignored.

Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology - who also appeared on the documentary - recently
claimed: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds
disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges.

"Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in
the face of the science."

Dr Myles Allen, from Oxford University, agreed. He said: "The Green movement
has hijacked the issue of climate change. It is ludicrous to suggest the only
way to deal with the problem is to start micro managing everyone, which is what
environmentalists seem to want to do."

Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said: "Governments are trying
to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could
not have got funding under the present system."

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