Joe Smith has posted a comment on Booker's Telegraph article disputing the characterisation of him as a "climate activist".
Christopher Booker describes me as a ‘climate activist’. In the interests of accuracy and fairness I want to state clearly here that that is a label which I flatly reject. The research and policy dimensions of climate change are not simple or easy. Myself and thousands of scholars around the world will need to be thoughtful, open minded and dogged in doing justice to their complexity. People need to keep in touch and exchange views in a thoughtful and civil way. I would have welcomed a conversation with Christopher as he prepared his piece but was not given the opportunity. The free exchange of views about demanding topics is one of the things that the seminars that his piece refers to have been all about.
Yours
Dr. Joe Smith
The Open University
Bishop Hill
Take a look at this video of Joe Smith speaking at the Communicate 2009, a conference for environmental communicators (sponsored by, among others, the BBC). Particularly from 2min30s.