Mail on Sunday story

Updated Sunday, 27 November, 2011 - 11:17

The Tyndall Centre has again featured in a story published by the Mail on Sunday.

In response to Mail on Sunday story "BBC sought advice from global warming scientists..."

There has been a second attempt to infer an inappropriate link between the BBC and the Tyndall Centre, this time by scouring stolen emails.

The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, an independent academic organisation, is committed to promote informed and effective dialogue across society about the options to manage our future climate. To do this, we talk about research findings to a wide range of representatives from the media, including the BBC. Communicating research findings to the public is a requirement of the UK Research Councils.

We infrequently provide advice to media programmes for effective science communication when requested. We promote accurate information on climate change research, and will speak up against attempts to confuse the public with obscure, unsupported, or unbalanced reporting of the available evidence on climate change.

The Tyndall Centre supports and encourages society to debate its options to manage our future climate. There is overwhelming evidence that the world is warming because of greenhouse gases.

Sunday, 20 November 2011

In response to the Mail on Sunday story, "BBC's Mr Climate Change":

The Tyndall Centre is committed to communicate science and improve the public understanding of climate change. It has contributed £5000 a year for three years to the Cambridge Media and the Environment Programme from 2002, alongside energy, banking and NGO organizations, to help fund seminar discussions around society's options to manage future climate. The goal of the seminars was to stimulate, not stifle, debate amongst a wide range of participants, including sceptics, to ensure that the public would have a better understanding of the issues.

Joe Smith and Roger Harrabin organised these seminars. Roger Harrabin was a member of the Advisory Board of the Tyndall Centre from 2000-2005, alongside a large group of representatives from businesses, academia, the public sector and NGOs. The Advisory Board met annually. Roger Harrabin represented the media sector because the Tyndall Centre is committed "to promote informed and effective dialogue across society about the options to manage our future climate".

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