Not sure if I can contribute here, but it's just to say that I see Camilla Cavendish from the Sunday Times has been promoted to Cameron's policy unit. It was Ms Cavendish who sparked my interest in this subject years ago when she wrote an article about the science being settled. That was obviously so wrong I rebelled against it and started reading into the subject. It is a bit depressing to see someone so superficial in such an influential position. No doubt she and Sam Cam will be best mates.

Harry Passfield
Don't hold your breath mate ! I sent a similar bit of sound science to Amber Rudd at the DECC before the election (also via my MP; it is the only way they get to see it). I got back a A4 sheet of Bovine Excrement in reply; the usual line. Reason and scientific rigour just do not penetrate. It gives me grave doubts about our future under any government. Why they gave that portfolio to some one like Rudd when there are people like Owen Patterson who could do an infinitely better job I will never understand.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/21/news-organisations-climate-change-content-guardian

25 newspapers are now so committed to recycling that they're not even going write their own version of a climate stories, they going to crib from each other. Because thinking up a new headline for a press release is SOOOOO hard. Well you've got to admit they're going to go all out for Paris. If Paris is another flop and/or the El Nino fizzles, you've got to wonder if environmental jounalists might be copying their CVs too.

FWIW: I read the piece over at WUWT: 22 very inconvenient climate truths and said that I would send it to my MP (Jeremy Wright) with the comment that I hoped he would pass it on to Amber Rudd. Today, I got a letter from him saying he would do just that. One can but hope.

May 21, 2015 at 8:48 AM | stewgreen
Even in Africa it gets dark at night, and sunset tends to be early evening ( today 06:28 to 18:30 for Nairobi 06:18 to 21:26 for Limoges) so so sort of storage will be required for most people to have electricity before 07:30 and after 17:00. I don't know if Monbiot has factored that into I agree with Jeremy that solar PV is an appropriate technology in Africa, where most people are off-grid and there's much more sunlight. Higher peak shorter duration for available power, not a total solution for a rural community where work starts at sunrise and ends at sunset and is carried out outside.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3090281/Cold-snap-20-times-lethal-heatwave.html

Why a cold snap is 20 times more lethal than a heatwave - and there are more deaths caused by moderate hot or cold than extreme temperatures
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Around 7.71 per cent of all deaths were caused by non-optimal temperatures, with substantial differences between countries, ranging from around three per cent in Thailand, Brazil, and Sweden to about 11 per cent in China, Italy, and Japan.

Cold was responsible for the majority of these deaths (7.29 per cent), while just 0.42 per cent of deaths were attributable to heat.

The study also found that extreme temperatures were responsible for less than one per cent of all deaths, while mildly sub-optimal temperatures accounted for around seven per cent of all deaths _with most (6.66 per cent) related to moderate cold.

continued

From Greenie Watch this article suggests that sea level rises in Australia have been negligible in the last 150 years.

Since nearly two-thirds of the world’s total oceanic area is in the southern hemisphere, Australia is best placed to monitor southern hemisphere trends and probably best represents the true Mean Sea Level globally. Also, the Australian coast adjoins the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, making its data indicative of sea levels in three oceans, not just one.

and

This survey was particularly relevant for global application since Australia is tectonically stable and much less affected by Post Glacial Rebound (the tendency of land to rise once the burden of billions of tons of ice goes) than Europe, Asia or North America.

Article here
http://morningmail.org/isle-of-the-dead/