Skeptics get a seat at the table.
IPCC 5th Assessment Review Meeting starts at 9.30am GMT
Witnesses
- Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, Professor Myles Allen, University of Oxford University, and Dr Peter Stott, Met Office
- Professor Richard Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nicholas Lewis, Climate researcher, and Donna Laframboise, Author
Live feed link follows.
Purpose of the session
Topics being examined include:
- IPCC AR5 key findings on climate change;
- Consensus and uncertainty about climate change;
- Reliability of climate models used by the IPCC;
- Areas of scrutiny (climate sensitivity, the hiatus etc.); and
- The structure and practices of the IPCC.
Watch here: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=14741
The ECC home page: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/energy-and-climate-change-committee/
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How right you are Professor Lindzen.
“The reward for solving a problem is to have your funding ended”
Lindzen says, “The present evidence is consistent with there being nothing to worry about”.
Yeo’s sounding distinctly nervous dealing with Lindzen
Lindzen is great! He is really duffing up Yeo. See how droll he is when he asks Yeo, is there a problem?
FYI: Mr Tim Yeo (Chair) is a Conservative. Rt Hon Graham Stringer MP is Labour.
See in the UK it really isn’t a Left-wing / Right-wing issue.
I pointedly choose not use the Rt Hon in Yeo’s case.
Tom:
re your question at January 28, 2014 at 3:08 am.
Yes, it is a lie (as I pointed out) up-thread. Laframboise is (politely) pointing that out now.
And, yes, it is literally true that one can be imprisoned in the Tower of London for deliberately misleading Parliament because Parliament acts for the Crown so deliberately misleading Parliament is High Treason.
Richard
Lindzen oozes with the confidence of an expert in command of his field and just as comfortable telling you what ge doesn’t know as what he does.
There is no greater builder of trust than that. A scientist who knows it all and is certain is no scientist.
Nic Lewis is not a good ‘performer’. He may know his stuff, but sceptics needed a contrast to Lindzen’s quiet style so the ‘message’ is clearly delivered to all receptors.
The hesitancy of Lewis may be nervousness but makes him a bad choice (I can bare witness that nervousness is natural before a Select Committee).
Tim Yeo is the chair. He keeps trying to misrepresent the words of the witnesses.
Surely this is noticed by his fellow comittee memebrs?
Let’s send a video of this to Yeo’s constituents.
They are already trying to <a href="http://order-order.com/tag/tim-yeo/"force the guy out.
Every little helps.
I missed some because it has ‘gone’ from the TV so I had to find the web cast. Did I miss anything important, please?
Lindzen just oozes confidence of a man utterly in control of his brief and knowledge.
A really smart man dealing with absolute idiots…..
On the animation you can see exactly how a shift polar vortex causes the inflow of warm air over the Arctic Circle. It has nothing in common with “global warming.” A height of 30 km. The temperature depends only on the amount of ozone.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-339.64,116.24,302
Brilliant from linzen.
Your spending billions on something what won’t have any effect on your weather or climate or is an actual problem.
Lindzen speaking truth to power, wonderful!
The fat Labour MP (no TV so proper title gone) is doing a good job of investigating ‘man in the street’ questions.
Lewis is giving good answers so possibly has now ‘found his feet’.
You just missed a plea for the sceptics to persuade the comitte that the mainstream is wrong and also a contention that money has warped the debate.
Highlight: Nic Lewis – all the money is on the IPCC side.
This surprised the MP (John Robertson – Labour I think).
MP John Robertson keeps misspeaking and calling Lindzen’s statistical interventions as “statistical mythology” (guess he meant: methodology.) What a waste of space this MP is.
God, this is depressing viewing (watching it now, live).
If ever an example of a government completely in thrall to a toxic political ideology was needed, this pathetic ‘Climate Change Committee’ is a perfect, if unedifying, example. Tim Yeo – a man whose at best clouded ‘impartiality’ is forever hopelessly compromised (i.e. non-existent) by his own murky business links to ‘green energy’ – exudes the kind of sneering belligerence towards his critics that is so beloved – and well practiced – of warmists everywhere.
This Committee is a p*sspoor pantomime of fools. Lindzen and Laframboise try their best, making perfectly logical arguments in the face of tedious interventions from the likes of Yeo, and get precisely nowhere in enlightening the dogmatic morons they are faced with.
Why did I ever expect anything other than this travesty?
All this beating around the bush because no one can plainly say the temperatures are fudged, the models don’t work and whole AGW shebang is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. I despair at how we got to this point.
M Courtney: Yes, John Robertson – on which side the money is on – alleged that on the basis that he had been to the USA, he could see that the skeptics were very well funded.
And now Robertson is quoting a line from a MOVIE!!! The Core!!! FFS!!!
According to Wikipedia, John Robertson doesn’t appear to be much of a fan of science, nor a sceptic in any sense of the word:
“He is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed an early day motion in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service sponsored by Conservative MP David Tredinnick.[13]”
John Robertson making a good case for Scottish Independence here.
I’m English
Rt Hon Ian Lavery MP (Labour) seems to be asking better questions so far… Back to climate sensitivity.
Lindzen just gave a superb put-down to a stupid question. This adds to his credibility for British politicians.
Sadly, the stupid credibility was from an MP representing my political party (Labour).