(From Townhall.com):
By Kevin Glass
From “hide the decline” to the “hockey stick” to Rush Limbaugh, the debate over climate change is fraught with accusations that the other side is willfully lying about the facts in order to win. Now there are two academics out with a paper justifying lying about climate change in order to convince global governments to “do something” about it.
Fuhai Hong and Xiojian Zhao, economists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology respectively, are publishing a paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics called “Information Manipulation and Climate Agreements,” which argues that manipulation of information by the media will “enhance global welfare” by inducing countries to agree to environmental accords (IEAs). READ MORE HERE