The Royal Society And Global Warming.

Royal Society Bows
To Climate Change
Sceptics
Britain’s leading scientific
institution has been forced to
rewrite its guide to climate
change and admit that there is
greater uncertainty about
future temperature increases
than it had previously
suggested.
The Royal Society is publishing a
new document today after a
rebellion by more than 40 of its
fellows who questioned
mankind ’s contribution to rising
temperatures.
Climate change: a summary of
the science states that “some
uncertainties are unlikely ever to
be significantly reduced ”. Unlike
Climate change controversies, a
simple guide — the document it
replaces — it avoids making
predictions about the impact of
climate change and refrains from
advising governments about how
they should respond.
The new guide says: “The size of
future temperature increases
and other aspects of climate
change, especially at the regional
scale, are still subject to
uncertainty. ”
The Royal Society even appears
to criticise scientists who have
made predictions about
heatwaves and rising sea levels. It
now says: “There is little
confidence in specific projections
of future regional climate
change, except at continental
scales. ”
It adds: “It is not possible to
determine exactly how much the
Earth will warm or exactly how
the climate will change in the
future.
“There remains the possibility
that hitherto unknown aspects of
the climate and climate change
could emerge and lead to
significant modifications in our
understanding. ”
The working group that
produced the new guide took
advice from two Royal Society
fellows who have links to the
climate-sceptic think-tank
founded by Lord Lawson of
Blaby.
Professor Anthony Kelly and Sir
Alan Rudge are members of the
academic advisory council of the
Global Warming Policy
Foundation. They were among
43 fellows who signed a petition
sent to Lord Rees, the society’s
president, asking for its
statement on climate change to
be rewritten to take more
account of questions raised by
sceptics.
Professor John Pethica, the
society ’s vice-president and
chairman of the working group
that wrote the document, said
the guide stated clearly that
there was “strong evidence” that
the warming of the Earth over
the past half-century had been
caused largely by human activity.
Meanwhile, the Government is
planning an exercise to test how
England and Wales would cope
with severe flooding caused by
climate change. Exercise
Watermark will take place in
March and test emergency
services and communities on a
range of scenarios that could
occur.
The Times, 30 September 2010
Editors Note: see also
Daily Mail: Royal Society
issues new climate change
guide that admits that there
are 'uncertainties' about the
science
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