UK Inquiry on AGW

[Planey]

Green on the outside, red on the inside.

Well worth reading right through.

Here is a brief summary lifted from the body of the article:

• Don’t confer scientific expertise on people who do not deserve it.

• Avoid false balance. In a field where 97% of peer-reviewed publications support the mainstream position we don’t serve the readers well by giving undue prominence to those on the fringes (think scientists who argue HIV does not cause Aids or that smoking has no link to cancer).

• And perhaps most importantly, make clear where scientific uncertainty lies and where it does not. While the precise impacts and timescale of climate change may be uncertain, the basic tenets are well-established science. The projections from climate scientists indicate that there is a significant risk of profound changes to climate if we continue to release greenhouse gases at the current rate.