Prof.Bengtsson of Reading University put under "enormous pressure" for
daring to say that Global Warming may have been exaggerated. I don't carry
a brief for either camp and keep an open mind, but that really is
deplorable. Do we have a scientific community motivated by the spirit of
scientific enquiry, or do we have The Spanish Inquisition? His paper was
rejected because the editor said it contained errors, but that sounds mighty
like a rationalization to me; he just expressed an opinion that was out of
favour. The scientific community has sunk pretty low when that sort of
thing can happen.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.