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Two notable comment pieces spotted elsewhere this morning: 

Philip Johnston in the Telegraph on the extraordinary position adopted by ACPO chief, Sir Huge Orde.  (Reading it, and having spoken at the Police Federation annual conference this summer, I do wonder how much support Sir H actually has for his centralist, Whitehall-knows-best views amongst rank and file police officers .....?)     

Nigel Lawson in the Times is well worth a look on climate change and Copenhagen - whatever your own position on this complex subject. 

Posted on 23 November 2009 by Douglas Carswell

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I think Lord Lawson is pretty much right on the mark here. Especially when you combine it with the CRU leak emails which seem to indicate that, as many have been saying, a small group of scientists and activists seem to be trying to control the debate about climate change.

It seems to me that Lawson has a lot in common with Bjorn Lomborg in that both suggest that mitigation is the better approach (and that the best mitigation is to get people richer). Mitigation also has the advantage that it doesn't matter whether the cuases of climate change are man made or natural or whether the globe heats up at one rate or another (or even cools).

Posted on 23 November 2009 09:07 by Francis

WRT The whole AGW bandwagon; you might like to have a read around the hacked/leaked UEA CRU data.

http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/11/data-horribilis-harryreadmetxt-file.html

Provides a nicely finessed assessment. ;)

Posted on 23 November 2009 09:46 by Obama Beach

Douglas,

Sorry it's off topic but would like to know your thoughts on UKIP not standing against BOO candidates in the next GE

Posted on 23 November 2009 14:55 by libertarian

I quite like the Met Office:

"If you look at the emails, there isn't any evidence that the data was falsified and there's no evidence that climate change is a hoax.

"It's a shame that some of the sceptics have had to take this rather shallow attempt to discredit robust science undertaken by some of the world's most respected scientists.

"The bottom line is that temperatures continue to rise and humans are responsible for it.

"We have every confidence in the science and the various datasets we use.

"The peer-review process is as robust as it could possibly be. It's no surprise, with the Copenhagen talks just days away, that this has happened now."

So the usual thefts which, as usual are used in the interests of the extreme right, are not particularly relevant.

Posted on 23 November 2009 20:38 by Quietzapple

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