Climate Change

Global Warming is back on the agenda, with a team from America saying their findings confirmed those made previously, that there was a trend for average temperatures to rise. Since the 1950s temperatures have risen by a bit less than 1deg C. This doesn't really address the issue, which is whether this was caused by man, and whether there is anything we can do about it. Just to put it into perspective I have two homes less than 200km apart and the temperature difference is usually 5 deg C.

Anyway the BBC has leaped on this, so here, in the interests of even-handedness, is the reaction by Marc Morano of Climate Depot:

The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim -- from A-Z -- the scientific case for man-made climate fears has collapsed.

The Antarctic sea ice extent has been at or near record extent in the past few summers, the Arctic has rebounded in recent years since the low point in 2007, polar bears are thriving, sea level is not showing acceleration and is actually dropping, Cholera and Malaria are failing to follow global warming predictions, Mount Kilimanjaro melt fears are being made a mockery by gains in snow cover, global temperatures have been holding steady for a decade or more, deaths due to extreme weather are radically declining, global tropical cyclone activity is near historic lows, the frequency of major US hurricanes has declined, the oceans are missing their predicted heat content content, big tornadoes have dramatically declined since the 1970s, droughts are not historically unusual nor caused by mankind, there is no evidence we are currently having unusual weather, scandals continue to rock the climate fear movement, the UN IPCC has been exposed as being a hotbed of environmental activists and scientists continue to dissent at a rapid pace.

PS you can read the evidence for each of these statements here