While climate change continues to be one of the main stories this week, there has been a shift of emphasis, with two British scientists cautioning against the scientific community overplaying the risks, the BBC reports. Professors Paul Hardaker and Chris Collier, both Royal Meteorological Society figures, are voicing their concern at a conference in Oxford. They say some researchers make claims about possible future impacts that cannot be justified by the science and that catastrophism and the "Hollywoodisation" of weather and climate only work to create confusion in the public mind.
They argue for a more sober and reasoned explanation of the uncertainties about possible future changes in the Earth's climate.
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http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/graphic/0,,397352,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/greenhouse.stm
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