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Is there political pressure preventing objective skepticism of climate change?
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Global Warming
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Anthropogenic Global Warming has become a huge multinational concern, with many people's career and credibility dependent on its truth. As such, some skeptics of Global Warming claim that scientists now fear that challenging the new orthodoxy can result in a lack of funding.
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Denis Rancourt
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I also advance that there are strong societal, institutional, and psychological motivations for having constructed and for continuing to maintain the myth of a global warming dominant threat.
27 Feb 2007
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Nathan Paldor
Meteorology Professor
Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media.
04 Dec 2007
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