Ah, Brian Cox, erstwhile keyboardist for D:Ream. Who, as Reeves and Mortimer pointed out, were S:Hit.

I saw them once, at the Keble College ball. It was a truly awful experience. To be fair, I was in a pretty foul mood to begin with. I pushed my way into the middle of the packed audience and proceeded to make loud, rude remarks about the utter awfulness of what was going on. I was physically ejected from the throng by irate youngsters.

Just sat through Brian (buffoon) Cox on his trawl through British scientific achievement which, in the main, is an interesting journey through Britain's great scientific heritage.
Spoiled for me towards the end of episode 2 where Cox interviews the editor of Nature magazine.
It goes something like this.
Cox "Scientists almost all agree that global warming is real and caused by human activity".
Nature editor "Yes, I would love to disprove that, but we don't get any papers like that submitted to us".
This after Cox waxes lyrical about the scientific method and the infallibility of peer review. What a shame that he fails to see the irony of his blind acceptance of the warmist propaganda and refusal to contemplate any possible alternative viewpoint.
Prize dunce and hypocrite.

Watching newsnight on iplayer I hear the theory expressed that the “missing heat” is somehow to be found in the deep oceans. A few question popped up in my mind and I would like some help from the experts.

1. How do we know the missing heat is actually there; who has measure and quantified the change in deep ocean
temperature and reliably attributed it to atmospheric warming.

2. How did it get there. Was it detected at the surface on it’s way ? If so where is the evidence.
If the experts believe it is there they must have some theory to describe how it got there. Lets hear it.

3. How is it going to get back to warm the atmosphere. If it is by upwelling (like La Nina) it is going to cool the
atmosphere reducing global temperature . I think I am right in assuming the temperature gradient at the surface will
be negative if water from the deep ocean comes to the surface. If it is going to stay there where’s the problem.

4. Why is it only now that this is happening. Why has it never been observed before.

Carrington had no option but to travel to Maldives to watch then sink...

The Maldives, a fledgling democracy at the vanguard of climate change
An IPCC report on sea-level rise looms, but climate issues have been absent from political campaigns on the paradise atolls