Bishop Hill More from the "you're a poo-head" school of science
Sep 18, 2013 Climate: Sceptics Greens Professor Nilay Shah of Imperial College London has announced the results of his deep meditation (£) on the climate debate.
Politicians who dismiss the need for urgent action on climate change are like the South African leaders who contributed to thousands of unnecessary deaths by claiming that HIV did not cause Aids, a scientist has claimed.
Professor Nilay Shah, of Imperial College London, said that politicians such as Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia who has raised doubts about the science behind climate change, would be judged as harshly by future generations as those who questioned the medical evidence on Aids.
I'm not sure if this is just an attempt to get his name in the papers or a defence of the gravy train he is riding. Probably a bit of both. But you can't help but wonder if anyone is going to want to read his report now. I mean, who wants to read something written by somebody who operates at that level of invective? Doesn't it just turn people off?
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Yes, it does turn some people off. But it also gets some people on board.
Tony Abbott strike again. Tim Flannery and the other useless commissioners (commissars) all sacked !!!!
Once more with feeling. DNFTT.
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Article in today's Times by environmental correspondent Ben Webster which states quite baldly that climate sceptics deny that the climate changes. He's clearly either mad or bad.
On line version here if you have a subscription:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article3872989.ece
IPCC reintroduces MWP and drastically scales back Climate Sensitivity: http://notrickszone.com/2013/09/18/die-welt-journalist-on-the-ipcc-small-sensation-ipcc-backpedals-considerably/
I emailed Shah, and got a reply.
It was media misrepresentation, taken out of context.
A kind of ''dog eat my homework'' excuse.