Elizabeth Truss's performance on the Sunday Politics yesterday certainly caught the eye as an indication of the extraordinary levels of numptiness within the government, but it may be that another government minister has managed to go one better.
...Viscount Ridley, a Conservative peer and critic of government efforts to stop temperature rises, questioned [DECC minister Baroness Verma] on when warming would start again.
He told peers at question time in the House of Lords: 'The fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change has confirmed in the same words that there has been a hiatus in global warming for at least the last 15 years.'
And he asked Lady Verma: 'Would you give us the opinion of your scientific advisers as to when this hiatus is likely to end?'
Lady Verma told him: 'You raise a couple of issues that we would dispute in a longer debate, but what we do recognise is that there a change in weather patterns happening across the globe, that climate change is occurring.
'It may have slowed down, but that is a good thing. It could well be that some of the measures we are taking today is helping that to occur.'