BBC News - Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming
Mr Miliband admitted so-called "ClimateGate" had been "damaging".CO2 causes more warming than thought - Taiwan News Online
He said the leaked e-mail exchanges between experts, which prompted sceptics to claim data had been manipulated, had been used to try to "sabotage" the Copenhagen summit.
"My answer to it is maximum transparency, let's get the data out there," he said. "The people who believe that this is happening, that climate change is happening and man-made, have nothing to fear from transparency."
Carbon dioxide indirectly causes up to 50 percent more global warming than originally thought, a finding that raises questions over targets for stabilising carbon emissions over the long term, a study said yesterday.Saudi Compensations Claims to Start in Copenhagen | AHN
In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, British scientists said a tool commonly used in climate modelling may have badly underlooked the sensitivity of key natural processes to the warming caused by CO2.
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When applied to what awaits us this century, the adjusted model suggests that nothing significantly different will happen compared to what has already been estimated.
"My immediate reaction is that OPEC [Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries] is unlikely to win public sympathy in developed countries for this proposal," he said. "Although there are precedents that could support their demand for poorer oil-producing countries to be compensated for lost revenues if climate talks in Copenhagen agree to cut the use of oil."CTV News | 'ClimateGate' politically motivated, says Greenpeace
Cox said he believes people will continue to look at climate change research in the same way they always have.
"It doesn't really change the wide body of scientific information out there and it doesn't change what is obvious to everybody: our climate is changing," he said.
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