Leading article: Sceptics have their uses - Leading Articles, Opinion - The Independent

The climate change sceptics have done us all a favour. This may seem a curious view for a newspaper so committed to the cause of environmental sustainability. But, by challenging the consensus view of global warming, the sceptics have tested the flabbier assumptions of that consensus and forced the proponents of the majority view to sharpen their arguments.

Why The Observer is Wrong

Part of the visceral anger of people like Robin McKie is that their goose has been shot. For some 20 years now, there has been a ruthless, and at times disgraceful, attempt to make ‘global warming’ a zero in any cost-benefit analysis with regards to political and economic actions relating to climate change, which would mean that there is no balancing of risks at all, but simply the one risk of ‘global warming’.

Nigel Lawson: If climate change is real, we must adapt, not fight nature

His basic stance is this: the climate change argument is forever being bundled up as one huge great issue, when in fact it boils down to four entirely separate questions. First, is the world warming up? Second, is the warming being caused by man? Third, even if it is warming, is this necessarily a bad thing for humankind? And fourth, what should we be doing about it? Even if the climate scientists can tell us what is happening, and why they think it is happening, they cannot tell us what governments should be doing about it.”

Met Office blocked role of leading scientist in climate change row - Telegraph

David Holland, an electrical engineer who made the FOI requests asking for the climate scientist’s correspondence, was initially told by the Met Office that Prof Mitchell’s records had been “deleted” from its computers.

Officials later admitted that the records did exist, but could not be disclosed because they were “personal”, and were not relevant to the the professor’s Met Office job.

EU Referendum: Phil Jones interviewed

He gets a very rough ride in the comments. Several make this point: "Anyone tempted to feel sorry for Jones should bear in mind what he wrote when the skeptic John Daly died: "'In an odd way, this is cheering news!'". This one too betrays a certain lack of sympathy: "In this era of 'victimhood', another perpetrator seeks to pass himself off as a victim."