«Defendants stole a page from the Big Tobacco playbook and sponsored public relations campaigns, either directly or through the American Petroleum Institute or other groups, to deny and discredit the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming, downplay the risks of global warming, and even to launch unfounded attacks on
the integrity of leading climate scientists,» the San Francisco suit reads.
Not exact matches
The Climategate scandal played a role in the passage
of the amendment, introduced by Republican Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer, who successfully made the case that the Climategate emails discredit the UN's claims to scientific
integrity: «emails publicly released from a university in England showed that
leading global
scientists intentionally manipulated
climate data and suppressed legitimate arguments in peer - reviewed journals,» he stated.
As
scientists, policymakers, diplomats and environmentalists begin to converge on Copenhagen for
climate talks, the
integrity of leading climate change researchers has come under attack; a release
of some 1,000 hacked e-mails from the University
of East Anglia in Britain has created a stir, with some suggesting the e-mails demonstrate hoarding
of and manipulation
of data by
climate researchers.
4) Is there something characteristic about the specific
scientists who have expressed a concern about «intimidation» that, apparently,
leads them to sacrifice the
integrity of their science due to the politics related to the
climate wars?