The dirty tricks climate scientists face
(WorldNews Environment)

Thirty years ago, in a small Swedish city called Sundsvall, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first major report. Even then, the major dilemmas facing those who sought rapid action were clear. An account by Jeremy Leggett, who had thrown in a well-paid job as a geologist for Shell to become Greenpeace`s climate campaigner, reported the events of that first summit, including an encounter with coal industry lobbyist Don Pearlman. “They had their heads down, copies of the draft negotiating text for the IPCC final report open in front of them. Pearlman was pointing at the text, and talking in a forceful growl As I walked past, I saw him pointing to a particular...