{"id":548419,"date":"2010-04-30T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:28:08","slug":"climate-debate-gets-ugly-as-world-moves-to-curb-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548419","title":{"rendered":"Climate debate gets ugly as world moves to curb CO2"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>ABC News:<\/a> Skeptics also accused the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a> <\/span>of supporting flawed science after several errors in a major 2007 report surfaced.<\/p>\n

The errors, including a reference to a non-peer reviewed study that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, represent a fraction of the conclusions in the report, the main climate policy guide for governments, which is based on the work of thousands of scientists.<\/p>\n

The IPCC has defended its work and has ordered a review. Many governments, including the United States, Britain and Australia have also reiterated their faith in the IPCC.<\/p>\n

For climate scientists, truth and trust are at stake.<\/p>\n

“In general, the battle for public opinion is being lost,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research<\/a> <\/span>(NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado<\/a><\/span>. His emails were also hacked in the CRU incident.<\/p>\n

“There is so much mis-information and so many polarized attitudes that one can not even hold a rational discussion or debate. The facts are certainly lost or glossed over in many cases. The media have been a bust.”<\/p>\n

Schneider said the mainstream media had failed to do “its job of sorting out credible from non-credible and not giving all claimants of truth equal status at the bargaining table.”<\/p>\n

Across the Internet, the climate science debate is being played out in a myriad of climate skeptic sites and blogs as well as sites defending the science of human-induced climate change.<\/p>\n

One high-profile site is climatedepot.com, run by Marc Morano, a former aide to Republican<\/a> <\/span>Senator James Inhofe<\/a><\/span>, who is an outspoken critic of climate change policies.<\/p>\n

Morano, who told Reuters he had also been the target of abusive emails, has been quoted as saying that climate scientists should be publicly flogged.<\/p>\n

“The global warming scientists need to feel and hear the public’s outrage at their shenanigans like “climategate” … There is no advocacy of violence or hint that people should threaten them,” Morano said, adding: “Public outrage is healthy.”<\/p>\n

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