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JOHN TIERNEY: WHO?S CONFLICTED NOW? ?I?ve previously wondered why so many on the green side of t?

By Glenn Reynolds

JOHN TIERNEY: WHO’S CONFLICTED NOW? “I?ve previously wondered why so many on the green side of the climate debate were so willing to play the conflict-of-interest card, as Dr. Pachauri was doing quite recently himself. It struck me as a risky political strategy ? because there seemed to me to be more money to be made on the green side ? as well a needless diversion from the scientific debate. So while I see some justice in this argument coming back to bite Dr. Pachauri, I still wish both sides ? and the journalists who cover any kind of scientific dispute ? would pay less attention to money.” The surest way to see that this happens is to call lots of attentions to conflicts like Pachauri’s.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).