The reaction of scientists and environmentalists to The Great Global Warming Swindle has been far more interesting than the programme itself. The most recent tirade against it comes from Professor Mike Lockwood of the UK’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Here he is...
56% of You are Fascist B***ards
We mentioned yesterday that Ipsos MORI regard the majority of the UK population as ignorant sheep who can't come to an informed decision even if it's handed to them on a plate. Well, next to what Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for the UK South East region, thinks of...
May, the 'Facts' Be With You
Bob 'respect the facts' May has been failing to heed his own advice again. Here's a recording of him at the 'Oxford is My World' event on 5 June, accusing Martin 'great global warming swindle' Durkin of being 'a chap who earlier is notable for Channel Four's [...]...
Fairford vs Oxford
There's another letter in the TLS today - from Lord Leach of Fairford - criticising (Lord) Bob May (of Oxford)'s Respect the Facts piece:Sir, – As a non-scientist I cannot have read one-hundredth of the number of scientific articles read by Robert May, yet I am...
Third time lucky?
A while ago now, we mentioned that the Royal Society had dropped from its website all reference to 'on the word of no one', the traditional translation of its motto Nullius in Verba, and that its former president, Bob May, had re-translated it as 'respect the facts'....
CR in TLS
We have a letter in this week's Times Literary Supplement on Bob May's translation of Nullius in Verba. It's not much different from our original post on the subject, except all the commas are in exactly the right place.Sir, – “Nullius in Verba”, the motto of the...
More Heat than Light on the Warming Swindle
Martin Durkin's Great Global Warming Swindle is in the news again following an open letter to Wag TV signed by 37 scientists. The Letter, organised by Bob Ward - former Senior Manager for Policy Communication at the Royal Society, complains about the DVD release of...
On the Word of No One… Except Us
Nullius in Verba, the motto of the UK's Royal Society, usually gets translated as 'on the word of no one'. That's a pretty good motto for a scientific body, the message being that knowledge about the material universe should be based on appeals to experimental...