§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his letter to the hon. Member for Linlithgow G/P50/10981/96, what consideration he has accorded to the work of the Max Plank institute in Mainz and Professor Paul Crutzen in relation to trace gases, the troposphere and climate change. [34636]
§ Mr. ClappisonThe Department is advised by the Hadley centre scientists on matters relating to trace gases, the troposphere and climate change. They are fully aware of, and draw on, the work of Professor Crutzen and his colleagues. Both the Hadley centre and the Max Plank institute contributed to the second assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, which provides the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the science of climate change.