In his most recent Newark Advertiser letter Backing Up Climate Views (News Views, February 18) M. Bassey draws readers’ attention to the position of the historic Royal Society on the subject of climate change. He fails to mention their position that scientific truths, which are discovered by hypothesis testing, should be established by the political process of consensus instead. In 2001 former Royal Society President Lord Robert May helped organise a statement published in Science magazine that there was a scientific consensus on the danger of human-caused global warming. On January 26, 2006, …