"Scott W" wrote :

The botanist has added his two penneth to the debate in a rather
interesting piece in the comment section of today's (Monday) Times...
It starts:

"Am I worried about man-made global warming? The answer is "no" and
"yes".

No, because the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction has come up
against an "inconvenient truth". Its research shows that since 1998
the average temperature of the planet has not risen, even though the
concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has continued to
increase.

Come on guys ... you're not taken in by this crude manipulation,
are you? You don't identify a trend by picking the warmest
year on record (warm because of the rampant El Niño occurring
at the time ... all El Niño years are globally warm) and then comparing
that with subsequent years. If you select your start and finish points
you can prove anything.

And Dr Bellamy thinks he can get away with calling a graph of global
temperature "research" without being accused of being misleading.

Philip