The oil company will bounce back but the fallout from scientists’ distortion on climate change will linger
There is an uncanny resemblance between the arguments used last week to exonerate climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) by the independent committee set up to investigate the scientists’ e-mail scandal and those used by BP to explain why it was less than open about what was happening during the early stages of its oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
It will be surprising if many environmentalists notice this. That is a pity, for clarity and logical thought about climate and energy are in short supply.
The underlying facts were not altered by the UEA’s withholding