Politics of Climategate threatens climate change conference in Copenhagen

Using data without irresponsible manipulation, fraud, and lying is somehow being the stooge of big business and the energy lobby.

But using data with irresponsible manipulation, fraud, and lying is giving our children "a better world." Those politics are a good thing.

November 29, 12:26 AMPortland Progressive ExaminerMichael Stone

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The politics of Climategate threatens the climate change conference in Copenhagen. The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen opens next week.


The political fall out from the release of hacked emails from one of the UK's leading climate research centers threatens the climate change consensus.

Climate change sceptics have used the hacked emails to try and prove climate change researchers are playing fast and loose with the figures. More than this, it has emboldened climate change deniers, and spawned a great deal of misinformation.

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