agw scammers hijack climate science reports

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    http://www.climate.org/topics/international-action/climate-censorship.html

    "...Down and Dirty Down Under
    The other major industrial country holdout against greenhouse emission limits, Australia has been beseeched by Pacific island nations that fear devastation by sea level rise to do an about face on climate change. Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister Sir Rabbie Namaliu cited two reports on sea level rise, including one by two Australian scientists, to indicate that his country and other Pacific island nations were more vulnerable than previously believed. He urged both Australia and the US to act.

    Just as this was occurring, The Age, a respected Australian newspaper, reported that three top Australian climate scientists had been subject to censorship. Dr. Graeme Pearman, who headed the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research for a decade,was allegedly forced to retire from the Australian Government’s chief scientific research agency because he had joined the Climate Group. This group, set up in 2003 by the Australian Insurance Group and WWF, favored Australia’s involvement in carbon trading. Dr. A Barrie Pittock, who for years ran CSIRO’s climate impacts program, reported that he had been subject to a gag on what he might say. Pearman and Pittock are world-renowned climate scientists; they provided the scenarios and climate impacts framework for climate change country studies undertaken between 1992 and 1994 in eight Asian nations — Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam. These studies by national teams in each country provided the basis for a February 1995 Asia Pacific Leaders Summit on Climate Change hosted in Manila by then Philippine President Fidel Ramos.

    A few days later the controversy gained added traction when the Australian Broadcasting Company’s Four Corners investigative journalist show interviewed Pittock and Pearman along with another former CSIRO scientist, a former aide to Environment Minister Bob Hill, who had held that post during the Kyoto negotiations, and the current Environment Minister Senator Ian Campbell, and Clive Hamilton of the newly formed Climate Institute Australia. Guy Pearse, the former aide to Hill, described his experiences after government service as an industry operative, alluding to a self described “greenhouse Mafia” of industry operatives who sought to ensure that Federal government policy involved no greenhouse emission limits. The climate censorship story gained added resonance as it came against the backdrop of a skillfully orchestrated industry campaign that involved energy lobbyists drafting government policy.

    Australian Prime Minister John Howard's tendency to downplay the threat from climate change has drawn fire from the Opposition and from Australian environmental groups...."

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    http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/rick_perrys_climate_censorship_cues_george_bush.php

    "News broke on Monday that the Texas government was working to censor a scientific report that mentioned the impacts of manmade climate change on Galveston Bay. The impacts it described, which included increasing sea level rise, were totally uncontroversial (even amongst skeptics). But a board of political operatives appointed by Governor Rick Perry nonetheless worked to censor any information that would indicate that the climate is changing, and that humans are causing it. This event, paired with Perry's atypically belligerent anti-climate science views, give us an insight into how he would shape his climate policy if elected president...."
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    http://www.desmogblog.com/how-australian-newspaper-warps-world-climate-science

    "THERE is a publication in Australia where for every one story you read which agrees society should take firm steps to combat climate change, there are four stories suggesting we shouldn’t.

    When climate change is viewed through the pages of this publication, most of the world’s “experts” think it’s either not happening, not worth worrying about or not caused by humans.

    Advocates for strong action on climate change are variously described as “prophets of doom”, “greenhouse hysterics” or “hair-shirted greenhouse penitents”.

    As extreme as these positions might appear, this publication is not a newsletter from a fringe group or a bulletin from the Tea Party.

    This is the divisive state of climate change science in the pages of the nation’s sole national newspaper The Australian, according to a 115-page examination of the publication’s role in shaping how Australia thinks...."
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    Makes you think...?
 
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