The Telegraph has further comments from Lennart Bengtsson, clarifying his position:
Last night Professor Bengtsson, said: “I do not believe there is any systematic “cover up” of scientific evidence on climate change or that academics’ work is being “deliberately suppressed”, as The Times front page suggests. I am worried by a wider trend that science is being gradually being influenced by political views. Policy decisions need to be based on solid fact.
This seems similar to the position advanced by Benny Peiser in his radio interview (see last post), who said that he thought that the problems were caused by a small group of activist scientists.