Singh low, sweet skeptic

Feb 6, 2011
Bishop Hill in Climate: Sceptics

There has been a conference today of skeptics - that's the Skeptic Society lot -  and one of the star speakers was science writer Simon Singh, fresh from his contretemps with James Delingpole.

As far as I can tell from the tweets, the highlights of his talk were:

• a proposal for a credibility spectrum on climate change, with the Royal Society at one end and Nigel Lawson at the other
• a proposal that us climate sceptics should henceforth be known as "climate numpties".

So, an argument from authority and some name-calling. Is it just me that finds this rather unimpressive from people who claim to be all about science and logic?

(As ever, please don't respond in kind.)

Article originally appeared on (http://www.bishop-hill.net/).