i think the number of these ‘non believers’ is down to people being fed up with the nonsense spouted by our politicians. They don’t believe what they say about anything these days after the expenses row. However, take a look at the temperature graphs taken from ice records for over 10 million years ago; Isotope 18 records (an oxygen isotope that exists more abundantly in warmer environments) fluctuate hugely suggesting that the warming and cooling of the planet has happened over this long time period quite naturally. Fact.

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“The UK occupies an area less than one two-thousandths of the whole world” Hmm, that’s 0.2%. So if we Brits pay lots more taxes we can solve all the problems for the other 99.8% of the world. Right?

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I have a question for winja, your honour.

Why did you ignore the rest of this interview, winja?

Question E – How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?

Professor Phil Jones: I’m 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 – there’s evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.’

Source: BBC News, Q&A: Professor Phil Jones, 16:05 GMT, Saturday, 13 February 2010.

It seems, your honour, that the climate denialists are up to their old tricks and quoting OUT OF CONTEXT.

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I would actually query the way the original BBC questions were posed!
The question referred to in this letter is

“From what you know and have heard, do you think that the Earth’s climate is changing and global warming taking place?”

I would find it difficult to answer this question with any certainty because it is actually a combination of two questions; hence if I answer “yes I do believe the climate is changing” I am also being forced to accept that global warming is taking place. Not only that, it is quite likely it would also be assumed that I agree with the alarmists predictions.

If I believe the climate is changing, because it always has, then obviously at some point it will be warming at others cooling.

It interesting to note that according to Professor Jones the quarter who – do not believe the world is warming – are in fact right to do so (at this time), because for the past few years the world has not warmed. The context here is framed by the question of global temperatures and not the interview given by Jones, who it would seems accepts that the world has not warmed since 1995, (I thought 1998 was the hottest on record) but also believes humans have caused warming since 1950, he now has to consider the conflict in his position, as we therefore obviously must have stopped doing so in 1995.

One small point about this letter, Mr Smythe is of course quite right that Britain is only a small island and we cannot judge the worlds climate by our own, but the severe weather is not confined to just Britain, there are reports of heavy snow falls and low temperatures from all over the northern hemisphere, we are having record breaking snow events. This of course does not disprove the theory of man made global warming, but I understand it does conflict with the computer programme scenarios on which the climate change industry is built.

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I am unsurprised by Ken Adams’ attempt to distort what Phil Jones said.

In nearly every exchange we have had, Mr Adams, who thinks -ludicrously- that climate change is an EU plot to take over Britain, has denied what the science is telling us.

Here he is up to his old trick of distorting 2 unequivocal statements by climate scientists.

Jones: ‘I’m 100% confident that the climate has warmed… [and] there’s evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.’

Latif: “There is no doubt within the scientific community that we are affecting the climate, that the climate is changing and responding to our emissions of greenhouse gases.”

Recently the World Glacier Monitoring Service, the body responsible for exposing the now notorious mistakes on the melting of the Himalayan glaciers in the latest report of the IPCC, says that the almost 100 glaciers it regularly surveys around the world showed a continuation of “the global trend in strong ice loss over the past few decades” in 2007/2008, the latest year for which figures have been analysed.

Could you comment on this, please, Ken.

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