Sir David King Lied To Parliamentary Committee

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By Paul Homewood

Sir David King

Last month, I looked at the Sir David King’s evidence to Parliament in 2004. This was when he stated:

I will not spend too much time on this, but if we look back in time for the globe we probably have to go back 55 million years before we find carbon dioxide levels as high as we are now at, and, of course, our carbon dioxide levels are still rising. Fifty-five million years ago was a time when there was no ice on the earth; the Antarctic was the most habitable place for mammals, because it was the coolest place, and the rest of the earth was rather inhabitable because it was so hot. It is estimated that it was roughly 1,000 parts per million then, and the important thing is that if we carry on business as usual we will hit 1,000 parts per million around the end of this century. So it seems to me that it is clear on a global and geological scale that climate change is the most serious problem we are faced with this century

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In March 2014, he also gave evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Committee, in his then role as the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change.

One of the Committee members, MP Peter Lilley, grilled him about this statement, which King refused to retract.

However, King also made this extraordinary claim:

“The first hurricane to hit so far north in America was Hurricane Sandy”

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This is so astonishingly wrong that I am amazed nobody on the Committee pulled him up on it.

For the record, there have been ten other hurricanes to hit New York or further north since records began in 1851:

Year	Name	State of Landfall	Category
1858	New England	NY	1
1869	Eastern New England	RI	3
1893	Midnight Storm	NY	1
1896		RI	1
1938	Great New England	NY	3
1954	Carol	NY	3
1954	Edna	MA	2
1969	Gerda	ME	1
1976	Belle	NY	1
1991	Bob	RI	2
2012	Sandy	NY	1

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Note that these are the states where landfall occurred. There have been many other hurricanes which have affected northern states, such as Donna in 1960.

Let us be very clear. It is an extremely serious affair to provide false evidence to Parliament. Since King was employed by the Government as their representative, this is doubly true.

He should be forced to return to the Committee, apologise and retract his untrue statement.