A
scientific study which suggests global warming has been exaggerated was
rejected by a respected journal because it might fuel climate
scepticism, it was claimed last night.
The
alarming intervention, which raises fears of ‘McCarthyist’ pressure for
environmental scientists to conform, came after a reviewer said the
research was ‘less than helpful’ to the climate cause.
Professor
Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading and
one of five authors of the study, said he suspected that intolerance of
dissenting views on climate science was preventing his paper from being
published.
‘The
problem we now have in the climate community is that some scientists
are mixing up their scientific role with that of a climate activist,’ he
told the Times.
Prof
Bengtsson’s paper suggests that the Earth’s environment might be much
less sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought.
If
he and his four co-authors are correct, it would mean that carbon
dioxide and other pollutants are having a far less severe impact on
climate than green activists would have us believe.
The
research, if made public, would be a huge challenge to the finding of
the UN’s Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that the
global average temperature would rise by up to 4.5C if greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere were allowed to double."
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