One of France's most decorated geophysicists has changed his mind about global warming. Claude Allegre — who is the author of 11 books and a member of both the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences — had previously expressed grave concern over mankind's role in global warming. But now Allegre writes in a French newspaper that "the cause of climate change remains unknown." He says, for example, that Mount Kilimanjaro is not losing snow due to global warming — but because of local land use and precipitation changes.They must not be evangelicals.
Meanwhile a glacier expert with the Chinese Academy of Sciences is discounting previous forecasts that glaciers across Western China could disappear in 50 years. Zhang Wenjing does not question global warming — but says it would take centuries to melt the dense ice packs in that region.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Changing Sides on Global Warming
Special Report gives us the scoop on scientists who have changed their minds on global warming:
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