BBC News - UK carbon measuring centre 'to improve climate future'

It will be formally launched at the Planet Under Pressure event in London.

The four-day conference will see thousands of delegates discuss various aspects of social and environmental sustainability in the run-up to the Rio+20 summit in June.

Michael Mann, Off Battlefield, Discussing 'Climate Wars' | Climate Central

Mann said the scientific results of the Hockey Stick study weren’t problematic, but the graph of the planet’s temperature history — which showed a sharp uptick in temperatures during the past century or so, resembling the blade of a hockey stick — was especially easy for a layperson to understand, and this made it threatening to those who were trying to scuttle attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.

“... You didn’t need to understand the complicated physics to take away from that graphic the key conclusion that there is something unusual going on with the climate today, and it has something to do with us,” Mann said.