The dodgiest of dossiers – Dr Vincent Gauci reacts to Daily Express

Further to David Humphrey’s post  “Is Global Warming Natural?”, Dr Vincent Gauci also offers reaction to today’s Express article…   “The Express’ lead story reports on the dodgiest of dossiers produced by the European Foundation.  Records show that there are big natural changes over a range of time scales that are closely related to observable [...]

Is global warming natural?

Today’s Daily Express gives 100 reasons why global warming is natural. One of our scientists offers his own view: Dr David Humphreys says: “First, it is necessary to differentiate between climate and weather. Even if the world’s climatic system was completely stable with no increase or decrease over time in the mean global temperature, there [...]

Debating the IPCC

Dr Joe Smith and Professor Bob Spicer are quoted in a BBC article today which examines the debate about the body which peer reviews climate science. In the article, Harrabin’s Notes: Debating the IPCC, Dr Joe Smith said  ”The dominant model of science is one of aggressive individual or lab-based competition to break new ground [...]

You ask the questions – at COP15

Who will be asking the big questions at the UN Climate Change Conference in December? Obama? Brown? Sarkozy? What about you? If you had the chance to pose a question to the world’s foremost experts on global warming, what would you ask? The Open University is giving you the chance to do just that. We’re [...]

Nuclear power – yes please?

Written by Dr Joe Smith, Senior Lecturer in Environment OK – I’m sorry – more of an essay than a blog post, but I’ve got to get all this off my chest in one go. In the 1980s across Europe you would see stickers with a sparky little cartoon atom character shouting ‘nuclear power – [...]