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Climate polls, scientists on offense, and the U.N. view from Copenhagen
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12/06/09 11:23 AM ET
-- International worries about climate change have dropped over the past two years, according to a newly released Nielsen poll conducted in October. Interesting tidbit: concern rose in China, which has overtaken the U.S. as the top current emitter of greenhouse gases.
-- I didn't get to this last week, but several prominent climate scientists have gone on offense in the hacked email dispute, including Penn State's Michael Mann, whose work plays a role in the controversy.
The liberal Center for American Progress hosted a conference call Friday. “There is a very robust consensus that humans are warming the planet and altering the Earth's climate, and this consensus is shared by virtually every professional society in the U.S., the National Academy of Sciences, the national academies . . . of all the major industrial nations," Mann said.
He accused a “handful” of people and groups of an “11th hour smear campaign” to misrepresent emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. “Those advocating inaction don’t have the science on their side, so they have turned to this last minute smear campaign,” he said. CAP's Joseph Romm posted the audio on his climate blog.
-- United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer tells the Associated Press in Copenhagen, where the big international climate summit launches tomorrow, that the emails are fueling public doubts about the state of climate science.
-- I didn't get to this last week, but several prominent climate scientists have gone on offense in the hacked email dispute, including Penn State's Michael Mann, whose work plays a role in the controversy.
The liberal Center for American Progress hosted a conference call Friday. “There is a very robust consensus that humans are warming the planet and altering the Earth's climate, and this consensus is shared by virtually every professional society in the U.S., the National Academy of Sciences, the national academies . . . of all the major industrial nations," Mann said.
He accused a “handful” of people and groups of an “11th hour smear campaign” to misrepresent emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. “Those advocating inaction don’t have the science on their side, so they have turned to this last minute smear campaign,” he said. CAP's Joseph Romm posted the audio on his climate blog.
-- United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer tells the Associated Press in Copenhagen, where the big international climate summit launches tomorrow, that the emails are fueling public doubts about the state of climate science.
