Trees cause global warming.

Actually, this is a serious and important story. It turns out that all of these climatologists who assured us that the science of global warming was largely settled, happened to miss the fact that trees produce somewhere between 10 and 30 percent of all methane emitted into the atmosphere. Iain, Steve or Jon could probably tells us more, but it seems to me that this undermines the reliability of a lot of models and the credibility of a lot of experts. I’m sure environmentalists will say this proves we need to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions even more. And they may or may not be right on that. But, plants are a pretty well-studied staple of biology. And the role of trees and plants on climate change has been at the heart of all these models and predictions for a long time. For me at least, it raises the question, What else have they overlooked?