CCNet (network)

CCNet (Cambridge Conference Network), a network which aims to stimulate debate and disseminate information and research findings relating to risks to civilization from Near-Earth Object including comets, asteroids, and meteor streams and what it considers as doomsday scaremongering about the possible effects of climate change.[1] It claims to offer "accuracy and reliability of the highest quality, built on reason and matter-of-factness" and to respond to a "low-spirited world subjugated by pessimists and prophets of doom".[2]

CCNet was founded by Dr Benny Peiser from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom[3] and claims to have 7,000 subscribers including 1,000 researchers and hundreds of policy and law makers.[2] Posts are available on the CCNet website up until July 2006.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Debate is an endangered species, says climate critic". Times Educational Supplement. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=403382&sectioncode=26. Retrieved 2009-09-28. 
  2. ^ a b c "CCNet homepage". http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/CCNet-homepage.htm. 
  3. ^ Peiser B.J., Palmer T., Bailey M.E. (editors) (1998), Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports). [The proceedings of the Cambridge conference.]