Read here. (click on images to enlarge; image 1, 2 & 3)
As this article indicates, for over 40 years, the UK "scientists" have been at the forefront of all sorts and types of catastrophic, doom-gloom scenarios for humans and the world and, in general, crappy/corrupt science. Whether it's the world facing “a succession of famines, epidemics, social crises and wars” by the end of the 20th century, or autism is caused by vaccines, or alligators will soon be basking off Sweden due to AGW, or there will be no more snow during UK winters, the UK scientific elite and the ruling class show a remarkable idiocy for embracing speculative, fear-mongering garbage, posing as "expert science." It truly seems the Brits are always at the spear's point of a "consensus" of idiots, threatening catastrophic nonsense.
At some point in the future, science historians will hopefully be able to pinpoint where UK science started jumping-the-shark and why. (Possibly, their research will support a very speculative thesis that island in-breeding has resulted in a country of elite dunces.)
In the meantime, congressional Republicans should make every effort to eliminate any U.S. taxpayer funding to UK scientists/institutions, especially those the least bit associated with the corrupt and incorrect climate science exposed in the Climategate expose. Funding idiocy (blithering idiots?) is no longer viable, nor helpful towards finding rational, practical solutions.