Via small dead animals, a rather surprising article describing how The Royal Society managed to get the basic maths wrong with regard to the impact of CO2 on climate change :

Top international experts prove British numbers on carbon dioxide are wrong. Royal Society blunder grossly exaggerates climate impact.

German born chemist, Dr Klaus L. E. Kaiser has published evidence that proves the Royal Society (RS), London, has been caught out making schoolboy errors in mathematical calculations over the duration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere.

Backed up by a review by a leading Swedish mathematics professor the revelation is a serious embarrassment to the credibility of the once revered British science institute and a major setback for its claims about climate change.

A gaffe in their own basic calculations led the RS to falsely find that CO2 would stay in the atmosphere for thousands of years rather than a dozen or so as per peer-reviewed studies show. Global warming skeptics have been quick to condemn the error and demand an apology and immediate correction.

And, just in case you are wondering why this may actually matter to anyone outside science :

The Royal Society advises the British government on matters concerning climate change. Due to the scale of the error any forthcoming review will necessarily result in a substantial downward revision of the threat posed by CO2 in the official government numbers.

Yes, they are government advisors and the government base their “green” tax decisions on the back of this advice.

No wonder we are being shafted from every direction whilst the scientists are spending so much time running around after global warming research funding that they cannot even get the basic maths right.