Australian winner of the Nobel prize for physics, Brian Schmidt is going to set the cat among the pigeons with these remarks:
“I think that [the carbon debate] has, maybe in the short term, diminished in some people’s minds the standing of science but to my mind it is part of the scientific debate,” he said at a press conference in Canberra this morning.
“I think that science should inform public policy. Public policy needs to take it as an input. It doesn’t mean it’s the only input.
Bishop Hill
Schmidt has a Twitter account it seems, and has just tweeted this:
The biggest day of my life, I am trending on the Australia twitter... but I am still behind Happy National Taco Day? I have a lot to learn.