Scientific Values Are Threatened By Climate Change Denial Lobby, Claims Lord May

CLIMATE SCIENCE

"By their own writings, this group has a much wider agenda, which is to replace scientific materialism by something more based on faith," May said.

London (UPI) Nov 30, 2005
England's outgoing Royal Society President Robert May of Oxford is urging scientists to speak out against the climate change "denial lobby."

May completed his five-year term as president of the Royal Society, Britain's national academy of science, Wednesday. And in his final address he warned core scientific values are "under serious threat from resurgent fundamentalism, West and East," the BBC reported.

May said the term fundamentalism applies not only to organized religions, but to lobby groups on both sides of the climate change debate.

He told reporters in London the climate change "denial lobby" and non-governmental organizations opposed to nuclear power are not exempt from a denial or misrepresentation of scientific facts.

The BBC said May also criticized U.S. religious fundamentalist groups of endangering the enlightenment of science by campaigning for creationism to be taught in science classes.

"By their own writings, this group has a much wider agenda, which is to replace scientific materialism by something more based on faith," he said.

He said scientists, worldwide, must speak out against so-called "intelligent design" and what he described as other threats to modern scientific values.

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CLIMATE SCIENCE

Climate Talks Begin Amid Warnings From Scientists, Greens

Montreal (AFP) Nov 28, 2005
Representatives from more than 180 nations began crucial talks on the UN Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gases amidst warnings about climate change from scientists and environmentalists.

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