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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

There is climate change censorship - and it's the deniers who dish it out | Columnists | Guardian Unlimited


There is climate change censorship - and it's the deniers who dish it out | Columnists | Guardian Unlimited


The report released on Friday, for example, was shorn of the warning that "North America is expected to experience locally severe economic damage, plus substantial ecosystem, social and cultural disruption from climate change related events".

This is the opposite of the story endlessly repeated in the rightwing press: that the IPCC, in collusion with governments, is conspiring to exaggerate the science. No one explains why governments should seek to amplify their own failures. In the wacky world of the climate conspiracists no explanations are required. The world's most conservative scientific body has somehow been transformed into a conspiracy of screaming demagogues.

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