ClimateWire: As the chief scientific adviser to Her Majesty's Government and head of the United Kingdom's Office for Science, part of Sir Mark Walport's job is to explain how well the government is or isn't communicating the science of climate change.
So when a committee of Parliament invited him to its inquiry on the subject earlier this month, Walport made no bones about the touchy politics surrounding the issue.
The Science and Technology Select Committee of the House of Commons was convened earlier...