Prof Williams, Jet Streams & Junk Science

By Paul Homewood

Further to that ridiculous piece in the Telegraph about air travel and climate change, it is worth revisiting two of my posts last year about Paul Williams.

Most of the Telegraph article is centred around his claims about stronger jet streams and more turbulence.

Williams has received more than £700k since 2009 in taxpayer funded grants to research this nonsense. The first post looks at his claims that global warming is strengthening the jet stream. His claim actually flies in the face of basic physics, as a rapidly warming Arctic should reduce its strength.

And as we can see here, other junk scientists such as Dr Jennifer Francis say that it is actually slowing down:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/spot-the-scientist/

The second post deals with his claim that instances of turbulence are increasing.

We live in an increasingly litigous, bureaucratic and safety conscious age. It would be little surprise if more such incidents were now recorded.

Yet in 2013 even Williams himself could find no evidence that it was a growing problem.

Meanwhile the official data from the FAA showed no such increase in accidents from turbulence since 2003.

And to cap it all, evidence from a real pilot showed Williams’ claims to be no more than alarmist drivel.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/global-warming-causing-airline-turbulence/

We have here an all too familiar pattern.

Huge grants are handed out to incompetent scientists to hype alarm about global warming. Their work is given a sheen of credibility by a corrupt, pal review system.

In turn, their findings can then be reported via the compliant and frequently biased media as “scientists say” , and thus presented as gospel truth.

More grants naturally follow, and the whole cycle becomes self perpetuating.