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ONE of Britain’s most distinguished climate scientists is taking legal action to silence an internet campaign against him.
Sir John Houghton has accused sceptics of waging a dirty tricks campaign to spread uncertainty about the state of global warming research. He hopes to use a talk at the Edinburgh International Science Festival this week to fight back against climate change “naysayers”.
Houghton, former co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former chief executive of the Met Office, said the past six months, when the science of climate change had been through a battering due to the “climategate” scandal linked to the University of East Anglia, had been both “depressing” and “worrying”.
Source: news.scotsman.com