We're Not the Only Ones

From today's UK paper, the Guardian, this news:

A former government scientist in Australia claims officials stopped him raising concerns about climate change.

Graeme Pearman, former climate director for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, an independent body funded by the government, says he was prevented from speaking about the risks of climate change "at least half a dozen times".

Australia and the US are the only major industrialised countries not to have signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. "I was told I couldn't say anything that indicated I disagreed with government policy," he told the ABC. (I was gagged over climate change, says scientist )

Sound familiar?

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