Gallery Guido has taken it upon himself to cover the Energy and Climate Change Committee hearings and, in typically astute fashion gets the members of the panel about right:
Suffice it to say that John Robertson’s questioning would have been a credit to a clever dugong. Albert Owen nearly grasped the idea that that a Greenpeace activist in charge of an IPCC Chapter might lack objectivity. And Tim Yeo’s chairing was as good as a golf club captain in a Saturday night lock-in.
And the exchange between Lindzen and Yeo about the pause comes in for special mention:
It dawns on Lindzen the chairman has special needs. He explains how a 16-year smoothing average means one thing, how a pause and plateau means another.
The lasting impression seems to have been that most of the committee members are not up to the job:
These particular MPs are simply not up to it. Climate enthusiasts will be embarrassed by them, and sceptics contemptuous. They are treasured, however, by sketch writers.