‘Climate scientists may have been murdered’

> Cambridge professor also claims he is target of assassins

LONDON: A Cambridge professor has claimed that three scientists investigating the effect of global warming upon melting Arctic ice may have been assassinated.

Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics, said Seymour Laxon and Katherine Giles of University College London (UCL), and Tim Boyd of the Scottish Association for Marine Science had been murdered after all three died within a few months of each other in 2013.

Wadhams also believed he had been targeted by assassins after claiming that a driver in an unmarked lorry attempted to push his car from the M25.

He hinted that the oil industry or government forces could have contributed to the killing of the three scientists who he has declared as “leaders” on ice levels in the Arctic.

Laxon, 49, a director of the Centre for Polar Observation at UCL, died after falling down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party in Essex; Boyd, 54, was killed instantly after being struck by lightning while walking his dogs in Port Appin, Argyll, western Scotland in January 2013; and Giles, 35, died in April 2013 when she was struck by a truck in Victoria, central London while cycling to work.

Wadham’s theories have been disputed by Laxon’s partner, Fiona Strawbridge, head of e-learning at UCL and a close friend of Giles, who has labelled the allegations “ridiculous conspiracy theories”, according to The Times newspaper.

Despite reporting the alleged assassination attempt against his life to the police, Wadhams told The Telegraph newspaper that he had not announced his theories over the three deaths for fear that he may be seen as a “looney”.

“It’s just a very odd coincidence that something like that should happen in such a brief period of time.”

“They (the deaths) were accidents as far as anybody was able to tell but the fact they were clustered like that looked so weird.

“I thought if it was somebody assassinating them could it be one of our people doing it and that would be even more frightening,” he said.

“I thought it would be better not to touch this with a barge pole.” – The Independent