[IP] British scientist calls US climate sceptics 'loonies'
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Date: September 25, 2005 11:43:05 PM EDT
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/23/climate_loonies/
British scientist calls US climate sceptics 'loonies'
By Lucy Sherriff (lucy.sherriff at theregister.co.uk)
Published Friday 23rd September 2005 20:18 GMT
The chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Sir
John Lawton, has called climate change deniers in the US "loonies",
and says global warming is to blame for the increasingly strong
hurricanes being spawned in the Atlantic.
In an interview with The Independent, Lawton said that global warming
is "very likely" the cause of increasingly intense hurricanes, in
line with computer simulations.
He told the paper: "If this [the arrival of Hurricane Rita] makes the
climate loonies in the States realise we've got a problem, some good
will come out of a truly awful situation."
Lawton was speaking as Hurricane Rita is growing in strength in the
Gulf of Mexico and the region prepares for another battering.
NASA has closed the Johnson Space Center in Houston in preparation
for the storm, and has evacuated personnel from sites damaged by
Katrina. At the Michoud Assembly Facility, a skeleton crew of just
forty remains to ride out the storm.
Meanwhile, residents of Houston are evacuating the city. Traffic
queues hundreds of kilometres long are forming as fears grow that
Houston could suffer the same kind of onslaught that caused such
devastation in New Orleans last month.
Lawton said that with two such large storms hitting the Gulf coast in
such quick succession, the Bush administration should re-evaluate its
position on climate change. He said if the "extreme sceptics" in the
US could be persuaded to change their minds, that would be "a
valuable outcome [of] a horrible mess".
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