article_snippet: Five years ago, I was one of 43 Fellows of the Royal Society – the first and arguably still the most prestigious scientific organisation in the world – who wrote to our then-president about the Royal Society approach to climate change.
article_snippet: The implication was clear: The Royal Society seemed to be saying there was no longer room for meaningful debate about the claim that the world is warming dangerously because of human activity, because the science behind this was ‘settled’.
article_snippet: Through these documents, The Royal Society has lent The Royal Society name to claims – such as trends towards increasing extreme weather and climate casualties
article_snippet: But a report today by the academic council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which includes several Society Fellows and other eminent scientists, states The Royal Society has ‘left out’ parts of the science, so the answers to many of the questions ought to be different.
article_snippet: Last year, at the request of the president, I produced a paper that urged the Society’s council to distance the Society’s council from the levels of certainty being expressed about future warming.
article_snippet: Don’t take another’s word for another’s word; check another’s word out for Prof Kelly fears The Royal Society has become more dogmatic when considering climate change .
highlights_snippet: Prof Michael Kelly fears that on climate change, it is ignoring the science .
  
highlights_snippet: Prof Michael Kelly accuses the organisation of becoming dogmatic about climate change .