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Posted Thu Sep 29 2011: from The Independent:
World's leading climate sceptic sees his funding melt away fast http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1317321783
Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and bete noire of climate change activists around the world, has been told that the incoming Danish government will cut off his £1m a year funding. Mr Lomborg, whose 2001 book suggested the planet should adapt to global warming rather than wasting resources trying to prevent it, has made his name by accusing scientists and others of exaggerating the extent and effects of climate change.... "The reason he received funding in the first place was ideological," said Ms Auken, environment spokesman for SF, the junior partner in the incoming coalition. "We believe that it is wrong to give funding to specific ideological researchers."... The centre has received funding from private sources in the past, including the Carlsberg Group and the EU. However, the lion's share of its income comes from the Danish state.
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'Doc Michael says:
Cue the conspiracy-theorist outrage.
Hmmm: Exxon, the Kochs, BP... to whom will he turn?

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