Regarding Emma: Empty vessels are loudest.
By Paul Homewood
The Mail report on the Met Office’s Richard Betts’ reactions to the BBC’s interview with the ridiculous Emma Thompson last week:
One of Britain’s top climate scientists has launched a blistering attack on actress Emma Thompson and the BBC, accusing them of ‘scaremongering’ over the speed of global warming – and risking a worsening of the refugee crisis.
Richard Betts, head of climate impacts research at the Met Office and a professor at Exeter University, launched his attack on Twitter about an interview Ms Thompson gave to Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis last Wednesday.
The actress, a Greenpeace activist who that morning had taken part in a protest against Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, warned that if the drilling went ahead, the world would be a staggering 4C hotter by 2030.
She said: ‘If they take out of the Earth all the oil…
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