In his most recent Newark Advertiser letter Backing Up Climate Views, 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 .