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Noble cause corruption gone wild. People tend to think of scientists as being unbiased, in climate science, apparently if you aren't biased, you aren't doing useful work.
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CFACT: A new peer-reviewed paper published in the
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, titled
"Information Manipulation and Climate Agreements", is openly advocating that global warming proponents engage in mendacious claims in order to further their cause.
The paper appears to openly advocates "information manipulation" to further the cause of man-made global warming and "enhance global welfare."
The authors, Assistant Professors of Economics Fuhai Hong and Xiaojian Zhao, note how the media and environmental groups "exaggerate" global warming and then the offer their paper to "provide a rationale for this tendency" to exaggerate for the good of the cause.
The
paper was published on February 24, 2014.
The author's boldly note in the abstract of the study that the
"news media and some pro-environmental have the tendency to accentuate or even exaggerate the damage caused by climate change. This article provides a rationale for this tendency.""We find that the information manipulation has an instrumental value, as it ex post induces more countries to participate in an IEA (International Environmental Agreement) which will eventually enhance global welfare."The authors of the paper, Fuhai Hong is an assistant professor in the Division of Economics, Nanyang Technological University. Xiaojian Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The complete
Abstract of the paper is reproduced below:
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