I was gagged over climate change, says scientist
From The Guardian in the UK: I was gagged over climate change, says scientist
A former government scientist in Australia claims officials stopped him raising concerns about climate change.
Graeme Pearman, former climate director for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, an independent body funded by the government, says he was prevented from speaking about the risks of climate change “at least half a dozen times”.
Australia and the US are the only major industrialised countries not to have signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. “I was told I couldn’t say anything that indicated I disagreed with government policy,” he told the ABC.
Do our governments have our best interests at heart? It really doesn’t seem so. Funny we have to read about this in the UK papers and not the Australian ones hey? - DS
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