Climate Change Debate: A Famous Scientist Becomes a Skeptic
14th May 2014
The debate over climate change is often a contentious one, and key players in the discussion only rarely switch sides. But late last month, Lennart Bengtsson, the former director of the Hamburg-based Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, announced he would join the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).
How can he do that? I thought that ‘the science is settled’? I thought that ‘the debate is over’?