Immediately after Dorling, Justin Webb interviewed Sir David King about his proposal to have a climate scientist on the Bank of England's monetary policy committee. King got very irate when Webb brought up the CRU emails. Even though Webb wasn't challenging the consensus view, the very mention of the emails is now considered off-limits as far as the high priests of the Warmist cult are concerned. Webb took his punishment meekly, like a good on-message Today presenter should. (Interview can be heard here)
Here's a rushed transcript of the relevant segment:
King: It's rather like the fact that there's a labour market economist on the MPC itself, on the group, designed to stop monetarists riding roughshod over the jobless people. In other words that person has a particular hat to wear, and I'm saying why not put someone on there who understands energy, energy technology, low carbon moves and wears that hat and can express it right there when policies are being decided on our finances.'Sir David, thank you very much. May I have another?'
Webb: You look at the University of East Anglia emails and you do wonder, actually, whether putting someone there would just make them a target, quite apart from anyone else, a target from their own colleagues. It's not settled enough, is it, to have someone doing the job and everyone accepting that they are doing the right job?
King: Good heavens. What are you saying is not settled enough? The science of climate change?
Webb: No, not the science, but the arguments, the flurries of discussion and dissent among the scientists themselves, and that to have someone there…
King: There is very little discussion and dissent among the scientists. That's a total misreading of the theft of the UEA emails.
Webb: Well you can see it in the emails, can't you?
King: (getting angry now) I'm sorry, that is an interpretation of the emails - the scientific community is of one voice on the issue. Is the planet warming up at the moment? That was the issue around the emails, and our Met Office, not involved in the issue, has published its own set of data this week demonstrating that of course we know icebergs are melting, we're losing ice around the planet, every single piece of evidence from satellites, from temperature measurements is showing that the temperature has risen by three quarters of a degree centigrade.
Webb: OK, and you want that information to be there at the top table in the Treasury, in the Bank of England. Sir David, thank you very much.
Does anybody else get the impression that Sir David has been rattled by Climategate? As more and more holes appear in their theory, King and his fellow zealots become ever more shrill in their declaration that the science is settled and that all dissent should be crushed. Talking of which, check out the Stalinist heading to King's article in the latest Prospect magazine:
The Bank's green future
Darling is getting it wrong on climate change. Now scientists must shape monetary policy.
Update 13.30. Just noticed that Umbongo mentioned these two interviews in the comments to an earlier blog post. Don't want to deprive anybody of a tip of the hat.
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