Britain’s top climate scientist backs global warming claims

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Britain’s top climate scientist backs global warming claims

Thursday 24 March 2005

One of Britain’s leading climate change experts has thrown his weight behind the claim that global warming is being caused by human activity in a report published today by the Institute of Physics.

The report by Professor Alan Thorpe, who takes up his post as chief of the Natural Environmental Research Council next month, aims to tackle sceptics who doubt the models scientists use to predict future climate change.

Professor Thorpe outlines the scientific basis for climate change and explains how the climate models actually predict future change. According to Thorpe, “uncertainty” is one of the key issues in predicting climate change but is an aspect of the research which is very poorly understood by the public, media and policy-makers.

In the report, Professor Thorpe says: “Science is crucial in determining government and international policy on climate change but only some of the views on this issue are actually supported by the scientific models”.

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