The politics of Mind Your Own Damn Business for the New Year

Global warming is a side show that has taken the public’s eyes off of real environmental problems and the real need to break the oil market – not just reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. If I can give the world one thing in 2011 it will be a far better explanation of what I am trying to get across with that point. We need alternative energy.

- Bishop Hill blog - Slingo on climate models

There is an interesting interview with Julia Slingo at Nature's website at the moment. No mention of climate change, but the twin spectres of Pakistan floods and Russian warmth doing service in its place as a means to drum up support for the Met Office's hoped-for new supercomputer. Scaremongering has served the weather/climate community for so long, I guess it's hard to break the habit.