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  Big business funds effort to discredit climate science, warns UN official
  
  Climate change summit braced for counterblast from sceptics as report warns greenhouse gas emissions
  
  still increasing
  
  
  Big companies are paying contrarians to undermine the work of climate scientists, according to a top
  
  UN official speaking before the release of a landmark review of climate science this weekby international
  
  researchers next Friday.
  
  Halldór Thorgeirsson, a director who reports to the head of the UN body that governs the on-going
  
  high level international climate negotiations, said that scientists would need to be prepared for a
  
  counter-blast from sceptics.
  
  "Vested interests are paying for the discrediting of scientists all the time. We need to be ready for
  
  that," he said.
  
  His outspoken views will set the tone for a fractious meeting of the world's leading climate scientists,
  
  kicking off on Monday in Stockholm, that will set out the evidence that the world's governments use
  
  when formulating policies to deal with global warming for decades to come. More than 800 scientists have
  
  contributed to the report, the final details of which will be hammered out in a gruelling four-day session
  
  next week.
  
  Full story Guardian..

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