Comments on: Scientists Warn Radical Solutions Needed to Tackle Climate Change http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2008/09/01/scientists-warn-radical-solutions-needed-to-tackle-climate-change/ Advancing ecology and making it count Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andrew Apel http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2008/09/01/scientists-warn-radical-solutions-needed-to-tackle-climate-change/#comment-233 Andrew Apel Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:21:00 +0000 http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2008/09/01/scientists-warn-radical-solutions-needed-to-tackle-climate-change/#comment-233 Much of this will eventually prove to be a very embarrassing mistake for many scientists around the world.

In the plant sciences community, specifically among those involved in biotechnology, many projects have gone forward with the notion that the resulting discoveries, translated into technology, will help prevent global warming.

The US$billions spent on global warming research, and the ‘cachet’ of tying research projects to global warming, has had the beneficial effect of funding research which otherwise would have languished.

At the same time, these research projects have indirectly contributed to hysteria regarding a global trend in temperatures which has yet to emerge.

Thus, good research done in the name of global warming is threatened with the taint of a branch of climatology consistently plagued by misinformation, and often, fraud.

While scientists today may be eager to gain grants by claiming their work involves global warming, they may wish to consider what is now nearly a certainty: that ‘global warming’ will in future be regarded as a very expensive hoax, and that the value of their research might be measured by the shabby data and inexcusable hype generated around it by eager politicians and activist groups.

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