Lawson vs Hoskins
Feb 13, 2014
Bishop Hill in Climate: Surface, Climate: WG2, GWPF

Nigel Lawson was on the Today programme this morning, up against Brian Hoskins of the Grantham Institute.

Hoskins was reasonably circumspect about the link between global warming and the recent floods. However, some of his peripheral insinuations were seriously dodgy - sea level rise (trend began before global warming), Arctic sea ice (claimed that last year's minimum hadn't been seen for a very, very, long time; and what about the Antarctic?), insinuations that we can detect a changing climate here in the UK.

Good that Lawson got in a pop at renewables.

Here's the audio.

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Update on Feb 13, 2014 by Registered CommenterBishop Hill

Re the Arctic sea ice, Doug McNeall points out that when he said "in the summer" he may not have meant last summer, but something more like "in summers". This is a reasonable interpretation.

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