The Scotsman opinion piece, on Climate, 11 November 2026
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Read the original article on scotsman.com (opens in a new tab)Ian Johnston's column argues that the COP process has failed and uses a new British Antarctic Survey study on the Thwaites Glacier to press the case for urgency, while criticising environmentalists over carbon capture and fossil fuel supply and the SNP government over nuclear power. It attributes the study's central finding to its lead author and the overshoot warning to a UN report, and it states the limits of computer modelling. We found no false claim about the science or policy, misleading figure or smear in it; its argument is its own and is not a finding.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“Dr Rosie Williams, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey, and the lead author of a scientific paper about the study said”
The column names the study's lead author and her institution, and gives the central finding in her own words rather than paraphrasing it.
“Clearly, a computer model is a best estimate based on current knowledge.”
The column states the limits of the modelling plainly without using them to cast doubt on the documented warming or its human cause.
“a process that would take several centuries”
The column gives the timescale of a full collapse, so the 65cm sea level figure is not passed off as imminent.
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