At the same time, scientists were angry and upset that what they believed to be their world-saving technology was being destroyed by, in their view, a wave of anti-scientific hysteria fuelled by the media.
was renowned as one of the hardmen of football, but his CBE in the Birthday Honours is partly in recognition of a more recent accomplishment. He was introduced to teenager Isla Grist, a girl from Inverness who has epidermolysis bullosa (EB) - a genetic disorder which means most of the skin covering her body is full of blisters.Souness revealed in interviews he had regularly been left in tears by her battling attitude to life and set about raising awareness and funds for the condition, including swimming the English Channel at the age of 70.
Another former Scottish international,is now an OBE - partly for a playing career, mainly spent at Rangers, and partly for his broadcasting career, which included an 11-year stint as a team captain on BBC One's A Question Of Sport.the footballer who earned 144 caps for England's women, also becomes an OBE, alongside
, the first British golfer to win the Masters.Yorkshire and England cricketer
and rugby union referee
who officiated the most recent World Cup final, are among other new OBEs.But in a free-wheeling appearance, the president-elect went on to criticise environmental regulations, the US election system, the various legal cases against him, and President Joe Biden.
Among other things, he suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" and restated his opposition to wind power, saying wind turbines are "driving the whales crazy".His remarks came as his son, Donald Trump Jr, visited Greenland.
Before arriving by private jet in the capital Nuuk, Trump Jr said he was going on a "personal day trip" to talk to people, and had no meetings planned with government officials.When asked about Trump Jr's visit to Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Danish TV that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders" and that only the local population could determine its future.