» Ex-IPCC chief: 5°C warming?

Speaking at a symposium on “Preventing global con-communicable diseases through low-carbon development” [?!] at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, (LSHTM), Professor Watson said the chances of keeping temperature rise below three degrees are fifty-fifty, and the rise could be as high as five degrees. That would mean the Earth warming more than it has since the end of the last Ice Age. The consequences for the planet would be dramatic.
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The British expert is science director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK, and chief scientific adviser to the UK Government’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He says there are solutions available to tackle climate change, but a lack of political will and moral leadership to implement them.
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“When I was chairing the IPCC we were all very optimistic that we’d have a global agreement to limit emissions, though we knew it would be difficult. But we were hopeful that emissions would not go up at the tremendous rate they are rising now,” says Watson.

The Royal Society jumps the shark (again) – Telegraph Blogs

How I totally trashed the Royal Society by turning it from the world's most respected scientific institution into a hang out for my lefty celebrity mates, a promulgator of heavily politicised post-normal science, and an amen corner lending spurious scientific credibility to the morally bankrupt, grotesquely corrupt, and comprehensively fraudulent man-made global warming scam – a closing lecture by Sir Paul Nurse.