I've just posted a comment on the Daily Mail article on the EAU email hack."The emails show the scientists are fallible humans, but there is nothing in them to affect the facts, which are (1) that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, (2) that it has increased significantly since the Industrial Revolution to a level that has not been seen for many thousands of years, and that (3) the planet has been warming for the last 150 years. There is a theory that certain banks and politicians are conspiring to get... Read Full Story

Letter to GuardianPaul Kingsnorth's pessimism (A climate deal is like trying to stop the rains in Cumbria, Comment, 25th November) is understandable, but not helpful. We need to remember Fritz Schumacher's maxim, "We must do the right thing, and not worry about whether we will be successful, because if we do not do the right thing, we will be part of the problem, not part of the solution". Agreed, the crisis that we face as a global community are immense, but so are the opportunities arising... Read Full Story

A sensible, reasonable skeptic (I am going for the American spelling from now on) has emailed me with some points. My responses in italics. Thank you for a clear and concise summary of your case. There are, however, several large assumptions that are made in the reasoning process. I would like to point out a few. 1. The assumption that a computer model of the atmosphere is accurate to draw conclusions as far ranging as you draw. Computer models are not science at all, but an pseu... Read Full Story

Image acknowledgments 150, 000 INNOCENT CIVILIANS STILL LOCKED UP IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN SRI LANKA, SEND AN APPEAL TODAY TO BAN KI-MOON, BARACK OBAMA AND GORDON BROWN, SUPPORT THE ACT NOW CAMP APPEAL SUPPORTED BY CELEBRITIES AND BRITISH MP'S, INCLUDING BOB GELDOF. PLEASE FORWARD THIS LINK TO ALL Despite the official war having ended, major human rights violations are still being reported as over a hundred and fifty thousands Tamil civilians are still being detained in Nazi-style camps... Read Full Story

Alex Jones an American "film maker and radio host" has an 8 minute rant here, pumping the UEA hack data into evidence of a global conspiracy of private banks, a new form of derivative, the Carbon Credits, devised by Goldman Sachs, al Gore, George Soros and Hitler. Well, he did mention Hitler, maybe I got the context wrong. The World Bank and IMF are in on the act, Obama and Soros are going to make a trillion give away Carbon Credits, which is worse than the Piltdown Hoax. Carbon Credits are... Read Full Story

There is a Climate Emergency Public Meeting 7:30pm, Thursday, 26th November, The Stag and Hounds 74 Old Market St Bristol BS2 0EJSpeakers include Richard Lawson (Green Party) Jonathan Neale (Campaign against Climate Change) and Karen Bell (Bristol University), Chaired by Katie Buse (Green Party) I am going to speak on Climate Change DenialWhat is “denial”?Denial; noun: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts.Composited definition of denial· psychological uncon... Read Full Story

Arising from the global warming discussion over on the Daily Mail website, since people do not have a clear idea of the science of global warming, I have written up a short (2 page) summary of the science on my website here.Can't put it here as images on blogspot need to be at the top, not in the text. Unless anyone knows better? Read Full Story

Extreme weather events, of which Cumbria is one example, are consistent with AGW theory.That is the tried and trusted phrase that a medical witnesses use in court. "The injuries seen are consistent with attack by a blunt instrument". That is the evidence. It is up to the judge and jury to decide whether the blood stained pick handle is the blunt instrument in question.A good question is: are extreme weather events increasing?See above. Seem to be.Those in denial will quibble about the data,... Read Full Story

You can listen to Caroline's speak here. Starts about 10 minutes in.She was clear as ever, giving a positive message about the opportunity that climate change presents. Very effective sigh as boring MP chunters out old-style misperceptions. She definitely dominated the discussion.Well done. Read Full Story

On Saturday I attended a DECC "consultation" on the plan to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.We had very short notice, and the conference venue was given as "Near J24 on the M5". I could not find it on Multimap, so though it must be a massive well signed centre that I couldn't miss. Wrong. Drove round the vicinity of J24 and finally arrived 10 mins late. Others had the same problem.As expected, government officials - civil servants - were presenting. My heart san... Read Full Story