Global warming has been a controversial topic. Policies required to revert its affects and progress have huge economical and thus political implications to the extent that global warming has often found its place in political debates and is treated as such instead of a scientific subject. It has many skeptics despite various scientific evidence supporting it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel peace prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" [1]. Some used the email leaks in 2009 to suggest conspiracies that exaggerated the data supporting global warming [2]. It was a huge setback but many scientists who used that data were willing to start their research and analysis all over again if they had to with enough transparency to win over the skeptics. Well, an independent group of international scientists made their job much easier and announced their investigation results: "Independent investigation of the key issues sceptics claim can skew global warming figures reports that they have no real effect"[3].
[1] http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
[2] http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-11-20/green_sheet/30085487_1_real-temps-warming-travesty
[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/20/global-warming-study-climate-sceptics
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