http://www.thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/montford-royal_society.pdf

For the record the following extract from The Record shows what he could, and most of believe that he should, have declared.

“…Oxburgh is also a director of GLOBE, the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment.

GLOBE may be too obscure to merit its own Wikipedia entry, but that belies its wealth and influence. It funds meetings for parliamentarians worldwide with an interest in climate change, and prior to the Copenhagen Summit GLOBE issued guidelines (pdf) for legislators. Little expense is spared: in one year alone, one peer – Lord Michael Jay of Ewelme – enjoyed seven club class flights and hotel accommodation, at GLOBE’s expense. There’s no greater love a Parliamentarian can give to the global warming cause. And in return, Globe lists Oxburgh as one of 23 key legislators.
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In the House of Lords Register of Lords’ Interests, Oxburgh lists under remunerated directorships his chairmanship of Falck Renewables, and chairmanship of Blue NG, a renewable power company. (Oxburgh holds no shares in Falck Renewables, and serves as a non-exec chairman.) He also declares that he is an advisor to Climate Change Capital, to the Low Carbon Initiative, Evo-Electric, Fujitsu, and an environmental advisor to Deutsche Bank.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/24/climategate_oxburgh_globe/

Was this not the reason that the man chosen to chair the investigating panel? He was what Sir Humphrey would call a safe pair of hands.

http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/d-Contents.html

edge.org is a very dynamic website. Many of you who comment here on climateaudit might be interested in what he and all his contributors have to say.

I’m less pessimistic than you (or Andrew) about “corruption”. Yes, some of these things are frustrating, but lots of things in the world are frustrating.

I’m not sure where Andrew stands but when I read something as broad brush as this from Lewis my agnosticism kicks in – some that didn’t know me might even call it my humility. For one thing we don’t know the impact of the internet on logical argument and discourse generally, as the next generation which has known nothing else reinvents these things. There are positives and negatives there and I have no idea which will win out. I also fall back on something that I read from Thomas Sowell, who tends to be of a pessimistic frame of mind. He suddenly said that his one hope is the vast number of past intellectuals he’s studied and how often their predictions were way off beam. So he too realises he may be quite wrong.