I was expecting some answer that told me you can have severe winters within a pattern of global warming, with reference to some climate change model analysis which allowed for adverse variations within the assumed pattern of warming. How wrong I was. Instead Mr M threw his toys out of the pram, declined to offer a civil answer to a civil question, and told me the science of global warming was settled. Ah yes, that settled science. Here’s another example of how settled it is. As an editorial in Investor’s Business Daily notes: A new study shows that Earth's ability It was therefore predictable that last weekend, when he appeared to wobble away from his commitment to provide tax breaks for married couples, there was such dismay on the Conservative Party’s traditionalist wing. Within a few hours the party rushed to repair the damage by stating that the commitment...
Wednesday, 6th January 2010
All together now: 'The science is sett...' no, wait...
4:15pm
The Tory MP John Redwood reports that when he asked the Minister for Climate Change (sic) Ed Miliband which of the climate change models had predicted such a cold winter, the Minister was unaccountably shirty:
...The irreconcilable incoherence beneath the weekend wedlock wobble
10:19am
David Cameron has dug himself into a hole over his marriage policy. As is widely perceived, his often-proclaimed commitment to support and promote marriage is at the very heart of his agenda to ‘mend the broken society’. It is also the one point of principle to which he has consistently stuck, trotted out whenever people accuse him of being merely a political opportunist. Look! say his supporters. He’s promoting marriage in the teeth of fashionable opinion! How brave is that!! You see, he is a man of principle after all!
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
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