These days Hubert Lamb, the founder of the Climatic Research Unit, goes on about global warming a lot
But back in September 1972 he went on the coming ice age quite a lot!
At some point between 1972 and now he started lying through his teeth, but in 1972 he was actually telling an alarmist version of the truth
Originally known as the "ice man" for his prediction of global cooling and a coming ice age, following the UK's exceptionally hot summer of 1976, he switched to predicting imminent global warming
In August 2006, the Climatic Research Unit Building in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia was renamed the Hubert Lamb Building.
In the same year Lamb was hailed as 'instrumental in establishing the study of climate change as a serious research subject' in a report listing the 'top 100 world-changing discoveries, innovations and research projects to come out of the UK universities in the last 50 years'
Yep old Hubert is a serious scientist alright!
