Part II: CBC’s denial of the climate science debate By Dr. Tim Ball & Tom Harris

1.  The Fifth Estate commentator asserts, “The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming.” The programme does not address the roots of the issue at all.  Had they done so, they would have discovered that many of the scientists who disagree with climate alarmism have been working in this field for decades and their published papers contesting the politically correct view date from the early 80s.  If some American climate experts who refute the human-caused climate change hypothesis now receive support from fossil fuel companies, then it is clearly as a result of the scientists’ already well-established record of outstanding research in the field.  In other words, the Fifth Estate have cause and effect backwards-- support from industry would obviously be a result of, not a cause of, the work of skeptical scientists.

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