Walport Shows His Ignorance

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Bishop Hill

Mark Walport, the government’s chief scientist and expert in immunology, has been submitting evidence to the Energy & Climate Change Select Committee. Asked about Matt Ridley’s view, (backed up by Richard Tol’s analysis), that global warming would bring net benefits over the next 40-50 years, he replied:

I understand the point [Ridley] is trying to make but I think he’s completely wrong unfortunately. While there might be trivial benefits in some parts of the world for some of the time the long term direction for all of us is a negative direction. And frankly I think he is…he described himself as a “rational optimist”. I’m not sure about the rational bit.

He has obviously forgotten what proper scientists were saying during the 1970’s, after three decades of cooling.

Scientists like Walter Orr Roberts, atmospheric physicist and first director of NCAR, the National Center for…

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Satellite Animation Shows Massive Eastern U.S. Cool Down

Watts Up With That?

Video animation follows

Three days of satellite imagery from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite were compiled into an animation that showed the progression of the storm system that drastically changed temperatures in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S. from spring-like warmth to the bitter cold of winter. (watch the greying out of the image)

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