Shameful Behaviour by Prof Paul Williams Reading University
June 13, 2024
By Paul Homewood
Some climate scientists don’t like it when their shoddy work is exposed as junk!
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An excellent video. Reading University has for long been a hot-bed of fake climate science. Paul Williams is following in the tradition of Ed Hawkins and many others. I agree – disgusting behaviour by Paul Williams.
Yes, and isn’t it “funny” how the MSM of many Eurolands has also been going with the gravy flo on all this recently. Just watch European ( appeal to the Remoaners) Sat TV to SEE their news programmes, Watching alone is educational.
The Prof/Doc Williams rightly gets absolutely hammered in the replies to this X-posting
https://x.com/DrPaulDWilliams/status/1800611024552259766
What iIfound so odd was that he has reported and bitterly complained about numerous posters being unkind to him then goes and does exactly the same back to someone who has always been perfectly polite. If he is that unhappy with X then why not just ignore it?
Then again (and just to balance the scales!!!) anyone who dyes his hair as badly as he does, deserves all they get.
As ever, “It’s OK when we do it”. They can dish out the most appalling invective, but they can’t take anything shot back at them.
As ever with these people, “It’s OK when we do it”. They dish out the most appalling invective, but when anyone comes back at them they run crying to mummy.
Excellent. As usual, follow the money.
Professor is just a job title….
Correct, it doesn’t imply competence
All you need to know about Climate crisis theory: “it is a crock of crap”.
Professor Paul Williams from the same school as Michael Mann!
If Paul Williams is an example of what Reading University has to offer, then Reading University has a problem. He maintains that air turbulence severity is indirectly controlled by CO2 without a shred of data or evidence to back up his claim.
The same Paul Williams from Reading University a few years ago also claimed that in the future it is possible that helicopter flights will struggle to get off the ground because warmer air is thinner!!! I kid you not.
It’s shameful that Paul Williams claims he is an expert when he makes such ignorant claims. Every pilot calculates the weight of fuel and cargo against air temperature and altitude given the known flight parameters of his aircraft and flight course before each flight. If the pilot can’t take off it will be because of pilot error in the pre-flight checks and nothing to do with warmer air and climate change. If this was the case helicopters would not be able to fly in hot climates and as we know this is not the case.
It’s totally preposterous for a Professor to make claims like these without offering any scientific data in support.
” in the future it is possible that helicopter flights will struggle to get off the ground because warmer air is thinner!!!”
Is that why “climate scientists” (the Met Office) put weather stations next to heliports?
Official Met Office Battersea Heliport Weather Station site
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B028'10.5%22N+0%C2%B010'45.9%22W/@51.4694804,-0.1796151,42m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d51.4695833!4d-0.1794167?entry=ttu
Official Plymouth Kinterbury Point Weather Station
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/50%C2%B023'46.9%22N+4%C2%B012'04.3%22W/@50.3966451,-4.2015455,173m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d50.3963611!4d-4.2011944?entry=ttu
There are more!
I wouldn’t have thought that is why weather sites are located near heliports. Its most likely so that pilots have real time, up-to-date data on wind and weather for their approach for landing and take off schedules.
It was Reading Polytechnic, and its still just a Polytech with sub-literate teachers.
With idiots like that on their staff Reading will never get taken seriously.
Not sure that’s true boba (re polytechnic). My Dad studied psychology at Reading Uni from 1950 to 1953!
Doesn’t stop me agreeing with all the foregoing comments though!
Sorry, typo bobn.
Hi David, sorry if it came across wrongly, I was being rather facetious. Those station’s data is now being (mis)used for climate data purposes.
Having recently watched a programme about a massive airlift of climbers from basecamp at Everest, the helicopters seemed to manage adequately in the rarified air at 20,000 feet so a little warm air shouldn;t cause many problems!
I am not qualified to comment other than share my experience with the board. Whilst serving in Irag during with summer of 2006, military helicopters were grounded when temperatures exceeded 50 degree C, which it did on the odd occasion. This was because it affected the aerodynamics and lift! I think we would agree that such temperatures were extreme though.
Hi
Reading uni seems to be a breeding ground for unconventional scientists.
I remember the fun we used to poke at “Captain Cyborg”, (Kevin Warwick), of Reading uni, who inserted an RFID chip in his forearm, allowing him to be recognized by RFID reader door locks.
He claimed that made him the first Cyborg! This was around 2000, at that time he was a regular object of derision in the Register.
cheers Patrick
They just made Michael Mann a Fellow of the Royal Society. I’ve also heard the Royal Society has dropped the motto “Nullius en Verba”. Perhaps in honor of Michael Mann’s contributions and aptly seconded by Paul Williams the new motto should just be STFU.
I hope Mark Steyn wins his appeal against Mann – if there’s any honesty and integrity left in our judicial world, he will of course
Junk science by junk pseudo scientists, no doubt benefitting financially from the plump greenfoolery funds
It seems that Reading Uni Climate Scientists get more stupid the higher CO2 goes. Worrying trend for them, they’re doomed I tell you.
Climate Scientists are becoming ever more desperate to find a scintilla of evidence to support climate emergency theory disregarding any hard facts to the contrary.