Comments on: Royal Society of Edinburgh, Oct 29, 2009

By: Geoff Sherrington

Geoff Sherrington — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:22:06 +0000

There are significant implications for the education of youngsters in this type of work. Here is a take by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Penny Sackett. About 15 mins of video, with the main message near the end.

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201003/r533777_3055472.asx

By: More Tricks from Boulton and the Hapless Muir Russell « Climate Audit

More Tricks from Boulton and the Hapless Muir Russell « Climate Audit — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:03:58 +0000

[...] her husband Tom Crowley, a prominent IPCC advocate. Third, as recently as Oct 29, 2009, Boulton had invited and appeared professionally with CRU fellow Dlugolecki and Climategate correspondent Mitchell at a Royal Society of Edinburgh [...]

By: Eye on Britain (2)

Eye on Britain (2) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:05:40 +0000

[...] on one side or the other.” [These guys don't seem to be able to keep their story straight. The Muir Russell FAQ states: "Professor Geoffrey Boulton has expertise in fields related to climate change and is therefore [...]

By: willard

willard — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:01:33 +0000

Among the thousands of people “having “no prejudicial interest in climate change and climate science””, any names coming to mind?

Steve: this is essentially a legal matter. Turn it over to lawyers.

By: Boulton Tricks Muir Russell Again « Climate Audit

Boulton Tricks Muir Russell Again « Climate Audit — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:21:52 +0000

[...] contact with the University of East Anglia or the Climatic Research Unit”. But as recently as Oct 29, 2009, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Boulton is the General Secretary) presented a program entitled [...]

By: Jimchip

Jimchip — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:06:08 +0000

Re: Lucy Skywalker (Feb 14 06:56), Lucy, leaving politics aside, there aren't a lot of US climate scientists speaking up and, according to 'email Phil', the US should have four times as many 'speaker uppers'. I think a lot of attitudes derive from the ambiguity and uncertainty of the conclusions reached by the science in it's current state of development. Recently I've been studying some Briifa emails and I think Ed Cook's "half-empty" "half-full" statements wrt the MWP from several years ago still apply in lots of areas. I call it human nature- Even the insiders (maybe especially the insiders) are somewhat tepid about media and political implications. I hope the US doesn't follow the MET example, for example, wrt here.

By: Inquirygate: Official British Climategate e-mail review falling apart | CLIMATEGATE

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:05:06 +0000

[...] As famed Canadian climate analyst, Steve McIntyre, the unpaid blogger who precipitated the Climategate scandal by his Freedom of Information requests, points out: [...]

By: adamnemo

adamnemo — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:29:33 +0000

“There are thousands of people in the world who are qualified to serve on this inquiry who have never met Jones, Briffa and/or Mitchell; who haven’t worked for 18 years at the University of East Anglia and who aren’t currently active in climate change policy advocacy – people who meet Muir Russell’s criteria of having “no prejudicial interest in climate change and climate science”. Boulton isn’t one of them.”

How very accurate, and to the point. Apparently, there are still those who think they can get away with it.

By: Richard Drake

Richard Drake — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:31:24 +0000

I suspect Lucy you're going to be snipped for politics there but in case not Freeman Dyson has a rather different analysis of why UK academics got stuck in such pessimism and apocalypticism, partly through their snobbish reaction to Thatcher, in the middle of a brilliant 2007 interview with Benny Peiser which is also prescient on the AGW issue, as ever. Dyson is generally a liberal Democrat (and liberal rather than fundamentalist Christian) but was of course born in the UK, one of our greatest scientists of the last hundred years, so I find his spin on this important cultural background of particular non-partisan interest.

By: stephen richards

stephen richards — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:56:57 +0000

You shouold not assume that titled british people have either intelligence or common sense. Lord, Sir, Baron, Baronette, etc rarely arrive paired with the words intelligent, streetwise, common sense, knowledgeable etc. They do not get their titles for being radical free thinkers, you know.