Harry Passfield, the power of suggestion or providing plausible explanations for a sequence of coincedences, is something that Global Warming Alarmists have had a lot of practice and experience in. They couldn't find any verifiable science, so had to keep busy doing something.

ACK:

have you ever considered that he thinks he's just doing his job? Reporters and commentators not only have to present a news story but put it into context. The context that politics, the scientific establishment and the BBC (reflecting this input) have is that climate change caused by humans is real and poses a threat. So someone like Justine (sic) Web hears a story that might be "misinterpreted" and attempts to put it into the currently accepted context

I am well aware that journalists/interviewers have to play 'Devil's advocate' when interviewing but the line is so often crossed by certain people. Web, to my mind is one (and, fwiw, the worst interviewer, IMHO, on BBC who tries and fails at DA is Vine); there are many more.

But, I also take issue that the interviewer has to present the news story in a context defined by the BBC. The context is the story and what it's worth, especially in this case when discussing a science paper. Of course, it is different if the interviewee is espousing a particular POV: that has to be challenged for balance, but the Reading scientist was not pushing an agenda, that came from WEB and his BBC 'context'. To me, the key is 'balance', not 'context'.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/11/23/salon-heres-a-list-of-potential-climate-budget-cuts/

It is only a list of POTENTIAL cuts.

The coincedence of the UK Climate Change Act in 2008 and the world economic collapse in 2008, is not the sort of opportunity that Global Warming Alarmists would let pass, without linking.

The latest dire financial forecast warnings from UK Thunk Tanks, presumably assumed that Climate Scientists would continue dominating economic and industrial policies in the UK, EU and USA.

If the UK is to rise with the USA's increased outputs, and leave the EU trailing, the UK's Budget in 2017 will need some beneficial cuts to UK Taxation.

For stewgreen and SandyS:

"Estimating Local Mortality Burdens associated with Particulate Air Pollution"

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/332854/PHE_CRCE_010.pdf

AFAIK the position wrt NO2 is still not resolved and he media is getting ahead of itself:

"Interim statement on quantifying the association of long-term average concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and mortality."

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nitrogen-dioxide-interim-view-on-long-term-average-concentrations-and-mortality

US EAP September 2016 work in progress draft report here:

https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/LookupWebProjectsCurrentCASAC/DA69AD128DDA195085258037004E1097?OpenDocument

stewgreen, the values of most things that are useful and productive, have probably increased, now that there is a closing down sale in Climate Science.

SandyS, perhaps it was only Antarctic ice that ever slipped out through the Ozone hole. Now that the hole is shut, the ice cannot escape through the back door and has no option but to accumulate.