The Times has a raft of articles about global warming this morning (all links are paywalled). There's a Ben Webster article on the Met Office model, a leader:
So far there are only theories as to why the Earth has warmed so much slower in the past 15 years than some models predicted. The models may have been wrong. The scenarios inferred from them may have been alarmist. This much is clear: the IPCC must tackle head-on what it calls the “hiatus” in global warming, and follow the evidence rather than buckle to political pressure from either side of the debate.
And finally there's a short piece about Lord Deben's rather slimy reaction to my being allowed to speak on Radio 5 yesterday (unfortunate spelling mistakes per original):
Lord Debden, the former Conservative Environment Secretary who is chairman of the government-appointed Committee on Climate Change, yesterday used Twitter to criticise the BBC for interviewing a prominent climate sceptic.
Following Radio 5 Live’s interview with Andrew Montford, Lord Debden (known as John Gummer before being made a peer) wrote: “Does BBC give platform to those who don’t believe smoking causes cancer?”
Lord Debden was himself then criticised on Twitter for making a false comparison by implying that the science linking manmade emissions to rising temperatures was as strong as the evidence linking smoking to cancer.