How Sir David King arrived at his current position on global warming hysteria
Sir David King, who was once chief scientific advisor to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is nothing if not inconsistent realistic.
Here’s what he now says about global warming alarmism:
“When people overstate happenings that aren’t necessarily climate change-related, or set up as almost certainties things that are difficult to establish scientifically, it distracts from the science we do understand. The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering. Also, we can all become described as kind of left-wing greens.”
- Sir David King, October 30, 2009
Really, Sir David? You seem to have changed your tune in the last year.
“If all the ice on Greenland were to melt, sea level would rise by seven metres. Is that likely to happen? Well I was saying six years ago unlikely [but] I’m afraid that that’s having to be revised… 80 percent of our human population lives within less than a one metre rise of sea level so imagine the destabilisation of our geopolitical system with a sea level rise of the order of one or two metres. And that is on the cards I’m afraid.”
- Sir David King, June 19, 2008
Welcome to reality, Sir David. Perhaps you could bring a few of your friends next time you visit.
Source: PlanetGore
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