Britain's Chief Zealot
Christopher Booker writes a splendid piece in the Spectator on the eye-opening behaviour of Britain’s newly-retired Chief Scientist and man-made global warming zealot Sir David King:
On behalf of the EU, King led a team to a key international conference in Moscow, where their behaviour astonished those present. They demanded that scientists critical of Kyoto should not be allowed to speak. They frequently interrupted other speakers, or overran their own time at the rostrum. When King was floored by evidence from the tropical disease expert Professor Paul Reiter that the melting of the ice on Kilimanjaro was not caused by global warming, he stormed out. At the end Alexander Illarionov, President Putin’s chief economic adviser, was withering about the EU team’s conduct. Their pressure on Russia to ratify Kyoto, he said, ‘was equivalent to a war on truth, science and human welfare’.King has described MMGW as
a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism.That such a man could have been Britain’s Chief Scientist tells us little about science but everything about Britain. And it ain’t pretty.