Bishop Hill The London trip
Oct 20, 2010 Climate: Sceptics I'm now back home, having had an interesting couple of days in London.
The talk at the Energy Institute went reasonably well, although numbers were apparently down considerably on normal because the invitations had been sent out rather late in the day. I also suffered from some technical problems, which meant that I had to speak without notes. I think, however, that I gained as much in fluency as I lost in completeness, so this was not the end of the day. One disappointment was that (from the tenor of the questions at least) most of the audience were probably already on the right side of the debate, so I'm not sure how many were persuaded by my words. Nevertheless, having not spoken in public for the best part of twenty years, I was quite pleased with the way the whole thing went.
The Vaclav Klaus lecture yesterday was excellent - a very unpolitician-like politician, I thought, quietly spoken and with a complete lack of histrionics. This made him a very persuasive speaker I thought, and I would recommend you read what he has to say if you haven't already.
Thanks are certainly due to my hosts - Peter Gill and Josh - for their hospitality and to Benny and everyone at the GWPF for inviting me to the Vaclav Klaus talk.
Reader Comments (10)
was the klaus talk filmed? any video links would be appreciated.
Excellent to have you back and to hear that all went well. We have been on best behaviour and have not brought any disrepute to this site.
There was a video camera there, which I assume will have been organised by GWPF. I'll see if I can find out.
Benny emails to say that the video of the Klaus lecture will be available on the GWPF website later in the week.
"not spoken in public"
Doesn't Newsnight count..?
:-)
There is a transcript of Vaclav Klaus' lecture at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6504 .
A fuller transcript of Vaclav Klaus' lecture is here: http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6504
Sorry, it's here: http://thegwpf.org/news/1726-president-vaclav-klaus-inaugural-annual-gwpf-lecture.html
I am assuming everyone has seen the lame articles from Simon Lewis and the latest Nature magazine, against,....
....Nigel Lawson
The speech is also on Klaus' own website.