Are Politicians Making Informed Decisions About Global Warming?
Friday, July 24th, 2009Scientists are key in researching and understanding the effects of global warming and what measures need to be put into place in order to slow down the process. For this reason you would expect the government to work very closely with scientists in order to put effective measures into place. However, it has been stated by the Innovation, Universities, Science and skills committee that ‘knowledge from experts is not being properly used to make informed policy decisions’.
This is worrying, especially when only a couple of weeks ago Al Gore compared global to warming to that of the Nazi threat.
Quite rightly the same committee stated that the prime minister should be talking directly to scientists so that informed policies can be made.
It seems fundamentally flawed to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to fund scientific research if the findings they make are not going to be listened to.