A BLUNT ALERT ABOUT THE GLOBAL-WARMING INDUSTRY – AT 5:44 P.M. ET:  Polls show that the American people put global warming near the bottom of their list of priorities, and for good reason:  They've caught on, even if the American press hasn't.

Once again The Times of London, which leads the media in exposing the "science" behind global warming, reports an important story.  This time a major figure in British science is confronting the global warmers:

The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions about the rate of climate change, according to the Government’s chief scientific adviser.

Finally, some major figure whose career intersects science and government has said it.

John Beddington was speaking to The Times in the wake of an admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it grossly overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding.

Professor Beddington said that climate scientists should be less hostile to sceptics who questioned man-made global warming. He condemned scientists who refused to publish the data underpinning their reports.

Many people are not aware that such "scientists" exist.  They say to the world, "Trust us.  We have doctorates."  But thoughtful reviewers want to see the evidence.

This refusal to publish, by the way, extends into other fields as well, especially fields that are politically fashionable.

He said that public confidence in climate science would be improved if there were more openness about its uncertainties, even if that meant admitting that sceptics had been right on some hotly-disputed issues.

Common sense there, I think.

He said: “I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper scepticism. Science grows and improves in the light of criticism. There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can’t be changed.”

COMMENT:  We are making some progress, thanks to the London Times and a few other sources, in bringing some sanity to the global-warming "debate," a debate the global warmers in the land of Al Gore refuse to have. 

We should make them have it, and force them to show up.

January 27, 2010