Is Global Warming the ‘Biggest science scandal ever’?

An opinion piece published in the U.K. Telegraph that alleges climate change is a hoax has incensed many.

In this June 12, 2011 file photo, people walk along the Cordillera Real of the Andes mountains on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia. According to the Environmental Defense League, a Bolivian NGO, Bolivia's glaciers along the Cordillera Real, Chacaltaya, Tuni Condorini and Illimani are shrinking in size by more than one meter every year and estimate that the majority of the snow in this area could disappear by 2030. A scientific assessment by the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change warned that rising global temperatures could have an irreversible impact on people and ecosystems as glaciers melt, sea levels rise, heat waves intensify and oceans become warmer and more acidic. AP Photo/Juan Karita

An opinion piece published in the Telegraph that alleges climate change is the “biggest science scandal ever,” incensing some environmentalists.

Christopher Booker, who primarily does pieces  on EU topics but, writes in a heavily shared Daily Telegraph article: “When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically ‘adjusted’ to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.”

Booker has made similar claims in the past. His claims have been derided by environmentalists.

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