Matt Ridley has a powerful column in the Times today, arguing that sceptics are right:
There is no evidence, Mr Miliband, Lord Stern and others, that our floods and storms are related to climate change
In the old days we would have drowned a witch to stop the floods. These days the Green Party, Greenpeace and Ed Miliband demand we purge the climate sceptics. No insult is too strong for sceptics these days: they are “wilfully ignorant” (Ed Davey), “headless chickens” (the Prince of Wales) or “flat-earthers” (Lord Krebs), with “diplomas in idiocy” (one of my fellow Times columnists).
Cue outraged letters from Bob Ward and Lord Deben.