Study rejected for publication because it was 'less than helpful' to the climate cause

A scientific study which suggests global warming has been exaggerated was rejected by a respected journal because it might fuel climate scepticism, it was claimed last night.  The alarming intervention, which raises fears of ‘McCarthyist’ pressure for environmental scientists to conform, came after a reviewer said the research was ‘less than helpful’ to the climate cause.  Professor Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading and one of five authors of the study, said he suspected that intolerance of dissenting views on climate science was preventing his paper from being published.

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Millennial Generation not so 'green'

On March 15, the Corvallis Gazette-Times published Study: Young people not so 'green' after all based primarily on the research of Jean Twenge, who was "shocked" that the Millennial generation trusted others less, showed less interest in government, social problems and concern over the environment than their preceding generations, baby boomers and Gen Xers. ✧ In the comments section of the Salt Lake Tribune (online) Liberated Jim responded to the study's findings:

This is actually good news. Those boomers who were out to change the world that didn't need changing, out to save a world that didn't need saving, and all the other CRAP that came from the 60's are now seeing their stupid ideas falling short. I love the line, "I was shocked!, We have the perception we are getting through to these people." I would say that they are getting through to these people and their message is being ignored as a stupid, over-bearing hand-wringing message of doom and gloom. Perhaps the new generations will find better, more positive and constructive methods of solving the problems their elders foisted upon them. [Emphasis added]

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Scottish map-maker admits Greenland error

Steve Milloy: There was considerable alarm when the word’s “most authoritative atlas” printed a map which wrongly showed that Greenland was rapidly turning green.

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