Here’s the Daily Telegraph’s Christopher Booker with an interesting account of a climate conference in New York about which the media had strangely little to say. Odd that. Mr. Booker goes rather further than I think it’s yet possible to go in his rejection of the man-made global warming thesis, but the questions he (and the conference) raised are serious — and deserve to be treated as such not only by the media but by any administration that really cared about science.

This extract gives a flavor, but read the whole thing:

Nothing has more acutely demonstrated this than the reliance of the IPCC on computer models to predict what is going to happen to global temperatures over the next 100 years. On these predictions, that temperatures are likely to rise by up to 5.3C, all their other predictions and recommendations depend, yet nearly 10 years into the 21st century it is already painfully clear that the computer forecasts are going hopelessly astray. Far from rising with CO2, as the models are programmed to predict they should, the satellite-measured temperature curve has flattened out and then dropped. If the present trend were to continue, the world in 2100 would not in fact be hotter but 1.1C cooler than the 1979-1998 average….Sea levels are not shooting up but only continuing their modest 3mm a year rise over the past 200 years. The vast Antarctic ice-sheet is not melting, except in one tiny corner, the Antarctic Peninsula. Tropical hurricane activity, far from increasing, is at its lowest level for 30 years.