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Yes, I know it's time to move on but....... did those of you in the UK see the story in *The Observer* about industry-funded US academics (one of them named as Robert Balling "an urban geographer") working on climate change? Seems their research is funded by the "fossil fuel lobby", including Shell, Exxon, Texaco and Ford. I especially enjoyed the following, quoting our Secretary of State for the Environment, John Gummer: "Attacking the sceptics' links with industry, Mr Gummer says `I would be more convinced of their independence if it weren't that they were being paid for by the financial interests which profit if we don't take notice of global change of climate'. He warns that lobbyists and their scientist allies `make respectable some of the wishes of the politicians to avoid difficult issues'" Sounds familiar? The issue is featured in `Battle for the Planet' BBC2, Monday 10th March at 7.30. Pyrs ********************************************************************** DR PYRS GRUFFUDD Yr Adran Ddaearyddiaeth Department of Geography Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe University of Wales Swansea Parc Singleton Singleton Park Abertawe SA2 8PP Swansea SA2 8PP Cymru Wales Ffon/Tel 01792 295146 Ffacs/Fax 01792 295955 ********************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%