The Royal Society's First Climate Scientist?

[carnyx]

I see that the Royal Society is starting to open it's archives.
So how about releasing the scientific paper by the founder Charles II, on Climate?

I was told that his comparative study of the world's weather records at the time showed that England had the most temperate climate, in the sense that a farmer could work outside on more days in the year than anywhere else in the whole World.

It would be nice to find out if the English climate, by that entirely sensible definition, has changed since then.

But odds are that the current President Sir Paul Nurse, and his Anthropic Climate Change cronies would not approve of it, at all.

As Arch-instigator, maybe Marchesa you might like to put in an FOI request?

And if they don't play ball, there is a very straightforward means of publically hoisting Sir Paul by both of his. The procedure can be found on the RS website, and together with a press-release, could be just the thing!

(We can dream, can't we? )

[marchesarosa]

One wonders where Sir Paul Nurse's concerns really lie.

loveforlife.com.au/content/09/07/15/billionaire-club-bid-curb-overpopulation-americas-richest-people-meet-discuss-ways-


Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation

America’s richest people meet to discuss ways of tackling a ‘disastrous’ environmental, social and industrial threat
by John Harlow, Los Angeles
Sunday Times 24 May 2009

SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.
The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.
Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.

These members, along with Gates, have given away more than £45 billion since 1996 to causes ranging from health programmes in developing countries to ghetto schools nearer to home.
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They gathered at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University, in Manhattan on May 5.

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Oh, yes, you certainly do have to judge a man by the company he keeps, eh, abacus? Do you aspire to "The Good Club"?

[marchesarosa]

New paper by Andrew Montford (2012)

Nullius in Verba
On the Word of No One:
The Royal Society and Climate Change

“...it is an established rule of the Society, to which they will always adhere,
never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or
Art, that comes before them.”
The ‘advertisement’ to The Philosophical Transactions, 1753.

Caveat
The fellows of The Royal Society do not give their presidents a mandate to
speak on their behalf on any question. However, since presidents issue state-
ments in the society’s name they have clearly taken on the role of spokes-
men for the fellows regardless.
In what follows, I take the position that the public statements of the presi-
dent will be taken as being issued on behalf of the Society and that they are
therefore honour-bound to speak cautiously. Once out of office their views
are their own, and beyond the scope of this report.

For 300 years after its foundation, the Royal Society adopted a position
of aloofness from political debates, refusing to become embroiled in the
controversies of the day. This position was encapsulated in the Society’s
journal, The Philosophical Transactions, which carried a notice that ‘It is
neither necessary nor desirable for the Society to give an official ruling on
scientific issues, for these are settled far more conclusively in the laboratory
than in the committee room’.



Full report available here thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/montford-royal_society.pdf