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David Davis and fellow honourable sceptics of climate change should distance themselves from the extremists and put forward their own proposals for mitigation
Believe it or not, I’ve always had a soft spot for climate sceptics. Not the obsessive trolls who patrol the blogosphere, nor unpleasant, twisted extremists like the Telegraph’s James Delingpole, but genuine, independent-minded sceptics, people who like to think for themselves and reach their own conclusions.
Contrary to popular assumptions, most climate scientists are sceptics. Not about the basic physical principles of greenhouse gases, obviously – which are undeniable to everyone except the aforementioned trolls and Delingpoles – but certainly about almost everything else. Forcing a humiliated colleague to retract a high-profile scientific paper is every academic’s dream, as the correspondence pages of all the leading journals attest.
Only this week, a paper on sea level rise was embarrassingly retracted from the journal Nature Geoscience thanks to flaws uncovered after rigorous fact-checking not by ignorant Telegraph bloggers but by diligent fellow climate scientists. Note also that the Himalayan glacier error was sparked not, once again, by the denial lobby, but by glaciologists who knew from their own research that the disappearance of all Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was virtually impossible.
Click source to read more of this rather daft report, someone should inform the author that science has to stand up against scepticism. What we have is “Man Made” science that has stopped the process of scepticism, and thats because there is NO MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE.
Source: guardian.co.uk