Dear old George Monbiot has reentered the climate fray - I somehow missed this at the start of the week. It seems like an eternity since he last graced us with his presence, but readers looking for amusement will be pleased to hear that his gratingly sanctimonious style has altered not a bit in the interim.
George's ire has been piqued by the temerity of David Davies, the Tory MP who led the motion against the Climate Change Act in the House of Commons last week. George, in common with the Labour MPs who spoke that day, spends a lot of time ranting about conspiracy theorists, while signally avoiding the fact that the only people who ever mention conspiracies are those, like him, who are obsessed with the idea of fossil-fuel-funded denialist devil-men (Or is green lizards controlling our brains? It's hard to keep up sometimes).
Anyway, George, linking to the AR4 summary for policymakers, tells us that the evidence that the warming at the end of the twentieth century was manmade is "impressive". I think this means that, like his rhetoric, George's understanding of the science has moved on not a jot since 2007.
I think he needs to Google terms like "pause" and "natural variation" and "OMG how do we explain this away?"