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Article: Climate-change views welcomed
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- July 3, 2008
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A retired Dutch palaeoclimatologist who has labelled man-made
global warming the biggest scam in human history has had a warm
reception in Nelson.
People packed the Nelson City Council civic chambers on Tuesday
night to hear Dr Gerritt van der Lingen speak.
At the end of his talk, Dr van der Lingen thanked the audience
for what he said was a frank discussion and the best presentation he
had experienced.
He had earlier joked that friends had told him to expect a rough
reception from "greenies" in Nelson.
Dr van der Lingen has previously written in the Nelson Mail that
science has shown that while the Earth has warmed in the past 150
years by 0.6 degrees C, it has actually been cooling for ...