IPCC vice-chair suspects a conspiracy

IPCC vice-chair: Attacks on climate [junk]science echo tobacco industry tactics | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele says rows over 'climategate' emails and Himalayan glaciers were organised to undermine Copenhagen summit
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"How could it simply be a coincidence that the 'climategate' emails are revealed two weeks before Copenhagen and that the mistake on the Himalayas is raised and transformed by some media into major error?" van Ypersele said. "I have a hard time imagining it could simply be a coincidence."
[And barely a year after I bought my iPhone, an October blizzard hit North Dakota.  How could that be a coincidence?]
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Oreskes, a science historian at the University of California San Diego, told the Guardian she agreed with Van Ypersele's that the attacks on climate science were organised: "Many of us were expecting something to happen in the run-up [to Copenhagen]. When it happened, the only thing that surprised me was that, compared with the events we documented in our book, the attacks had crossed the line into illegality."