Coming as a surprise to literally no one at all, Matt Ridley’s speech at the Royal Society for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was chock full of the sort of climate science denial the Royal Society said wouldn’t take place when they rebuffed calls to cancel the event.
DeSmogUK’s new Deputy Editor Mat Hope covered the event, gathering quotes from members of the Royal Society who were...less than impressed, shall we say, with Ridley’s speech. Joanna Haigh, for example, told DeSmog, “Ridley claims not to dispute the science, he then disputes climate sensitivity estimates with selective citations.” Bob Ward had harsher words, saying that the Royal Society was “duped” by GWPF’s assurances that Ridley wouldn’t deny the science.
Ward does retain a bit of optimism though, hoping that this will serve as a lesson for the Royal Society and in the future they won’t “be misled into providing a platform for the foundation’s campaign of misinformation.”
This is far from a unique or rare example of GWPF’s lack of educational focus. Another DeSmogUK story shows that their video about Antarctic sea ice is similarly misleading. The scientist whose work they cite says it “makes several statements that are not supported by our findings.”
Fortunately, the event seems to have been met with a resounding yawn by the media, as beyond DeSmogUK and a takedown by Dana Nuccitelli, there’s all of one other story about the event, from Breitbart UK’s James Delingpole. True to his style of hyperbole so outrageous it defies basic human decency, Delingpole stoops to a sick new low by invoking underage human trafficking. Apparently, climate alarmists “are to the scientific method what gangs of Muslim taxi drivers in Rotherham are to 13-year-old white schoolgirls.”
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