Climategate Resurrected?! Study which doubts global warming is ‘covered up’ as it is claimed it might fuel climate skepticism – ‘Paper suggests that climate is less sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought’
Prof Bengtsson, 79, said it was ‘utterly unacceptable’ to advise against publishing a paper on the political grounds.
'If people are proposing to do major changes to the world’s economic system we must have much more solid information. ’
He said: ‘It is an indication of how science is gradually being influenced by political views. The reality hasn’t been keeping up with the [computer] models.‘The problem we now have in the climate community is that some scientists are mixing up their scientific role with that of a climate activist.'