I never said it wasn’t getting warmer – that is the natural cycle. Just that all the fanatics are trying to return us to the stone age by using fudged data. Al Gore is set to make billions out of us because of his interest in the company that makes the smart meters the gov is insisting should be fitted.

The Kobenhavn jolly is just a means to generate taxes and keep the third world under control.

Re the Mathematical Modelling of climate: I laugh and jeer at it. I had over 40 years of modelling chemical and physical interactions, and even with the advantage of data from controlled experiments, it ain’t easy. With only a short run of shambolic temperature observations, polluted by God-knows-what adjustments, modelling to an accuracy of 0.1C is a risible claim. Fat bloody chance!

And, since not everybody may feel like being frank about this, I should just comment that the intellectual standard of some of these bozoes is pretty low. I read Steve McIntyre’s destruction of Mann’s work with amazement – Mann knows less about bloody statistics than I do, and I last wrote something original on the issue in the 70s! McIntyre, though, has a real claim to being a better scientist than many of them, just on the evidence of the quality of his analyses.

1. Dearieme?

2. Ivan?

I’ll stick to my sphere – psychological analysis and shall defer to you both on yours – chemistry and the geological sciences. It still doesn’t alter the fact that Russia has got progressively warmer over the past thirteen years, especially in winter.

The reason I know that is that I noted the temperature extremes each year, the first day of snow, the last and so on – I love snow. Each year until about 2003, there were at least three or four, diminishing each year, less than minus 30 temperatures and about half were in the minus twenties, with about three or four up around zero.

By 2005, there was one minus 30 or lower and about fifteen minus 20 or lower. By 2008, my last year, there were mainly teens, quite a few single figures, about five less than minus 25 and no minus 30s.

The snow cover in the city also altered and became much thinner. Now, as the same time, the vehicles on the road exponentially increased as credit became freely available. Now, I believe, the cars on the road are back to two-thirds of that due to the recession. I’ll have to ask my friends what’s happening, temperature wise.

Dearieme, I don’t think there is a simple straightforward calculation regarding CO2. I have a nagging feeling that way back in the dark ages when I went to university someone said that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was self limiting but in enclosed spaces it was not. Anyway if they have ‘massaged’ the CO2 results as they have the temperature ones then I think we need a truck load of salt to take with them.