Why the Daily Mail was wrong to claim global warming has stopped. The British newspaper the Mail on Sunday and its writer David Rose are notorious for publishing misleading (at best) climate-related articles, as we have discussed previously here, for example.
They have recently struck again, claiming that according to a "quietly released" Met Office report, global warming stopped 16 years ago (a myth which Skeptical Science debunks here and here). This assertion is entirely fabricated, as the Met Office explained by publishing David Rose's inquiry and the Met Office's responses. "Firstly, the Met Office has not issued a report on this issue. We can only assume the article is referring to the completion of work to update the HadCRUT4 global temperature dataset compiled by ourselves and the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit.We announced that this work was going on in March and it was finished this week.
You can see the HadCRUT4 website here. " Rose Tries to Lead the Witness Down the Up Escalator Rose and Curry Ignore 90+% of Global Warming. Daily chart: Presidential figures of speech. Emoto. The great myth of urban Britain. 28 June 2012Last updated at 05:56 ET The UK by night, seen from the International Space Station - the bright patches are city lights What proportion of Britain do you reckon is built on?
By that I mean covered by buildings, roads, car parks, railways, paths and so on - what people might call "concreted over". Go on - have a guess. I was prompted to find out the answer to this question after reading this week how woodland is now calculated to cover 12.7% of the UK, the highest proportion since 1924 when records began.
I tweeted the figures after the ONS published them in their UK Environmental Accounts and found I was not the only one surprised. The 80% of us who live in towns and cities spend an inordinate amount of time staring at tarmac and brick. But when you look out of a plane window as you buckle-up ahead of landing at a UK airport, the revelation is how green the country appears. So what is the answer to my question - have you got a figure in your head? Their conclusion? Yes. Www.strategicplay.ca/upload/documents/the-science-of-lego-serious-play.pdf.
Effects of ideology and relationships on communication. Language. Uncertainty. Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Evidence vs. Ideology: the case for a scientific approach to policy-making. Adam Afriyie is Member of Parliament for Windsor and former Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation.
He is Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST), Chairman of the Parliamentary Space Committee APG, President of the Conservative Technology Forum, and Founder and President of Conservative Friends of Science. Prior to becoming an MP in 2005, Adam was a successful entrepreneur in the news and information technology sector. As former Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation, I am acutely aware that scientific research is an indispensable driver of long-term economic growth.
Thankfully, the Coalition Government recognises the importance of the UK science and research in securing future prosperity. As George Osborne put it in 2010, “Britain is a world leader in scientific research. It is reassuring to see so many of the policies I helped develop in Opposition enacted in Government. Yet there is still progress to be made.