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Old 26-09-2006, 16:14   #184
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Re: Global warming 'past the point of no return'

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Originally Posted by Chris T View Post
My concern is not so much with whether someone's right to free speech is being eroded. With ExxonMobil on their side, that is very unlikely to happen. What worries me is the apparent sacrifice of proper scientific method and objectivity on the part of the Royal Society.

One columnist I read this weekend - either the Sunday Express or Sunday Herald, I forget which - suggested that some climate scientists are beginning to sound worryingly like a priestood, for whom climate change is an article of faith, rather than a scientific theory open to challenge and revision.
It does seem as though the Royal Society are attacking the source of the research rather than the research itself.

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Originally Posted by hatedbythemail View Post
im not sure theres evidence for that.
How about the fact they are attacking the source of the funding rather than the research itself?
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