Professor Ian Plimer

Politicising various aspects of science, which may or may not be important for, say, defence or medicine, are terribly dangerous.

No, it's quite new.

And I've been working as a scientist since 1968.

I think it's come in from the 90s and there's a pot of money out there.

And scientists have got the same weaknesses as everyone else.

If there's a pot of money, they'll try to grab it.

And virtually every university has a climate institute.

And I think they don't ask the simple question, well, whatever we do can't change the global climate.

Why are we doing it?

That's exactly right.

So it's all about the money.

And so many universities now have climate institutes because that's where the money is.

So many people are getting whacking big research grants because governments don't want to be accused of ignoring climate.

Yes, very much so.

Natural processes are fairly slow.

In the case of Holland, they've been doing it for a thousand years.

That is because of the land sinking.

Southeastern England is sinking.

Scotland is rising, both politically and physically.

This is a normal process.