Further to the public mud slinging between the Royal Society's Sir Paul Nurse and Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation, the GWPF have today published correspondence between the two great men following Sir Paul's recent lecture at Melbourne University, see 17th February post, in which he accused Lawson of cherry picking data to further his (Lawson's) climate change denial agenda. Sir Paul has offered to put Lord Lawson in touch with eminent climate scientists to offer GWPF "informed scientific advice" seeing as it has "lost its way". He also called for GWPF to reveal who their funders are.

Good Question. Essential reading

Today also Sir John Beddington did the rounds of the news channels to tell us all that climate change is "completely unequivocal". Interestingly this was sandwiched between the extreme snow reports and the extreme weather forecast.

However, Sir Paul Nurse's letter to Lord Lawson has not cramped the GWPF's style and the GWPF manage to engineer the ridiculous headline "Benny Peiser Sceptical of John Beddington's Climate Alarm", including the observation "If you can heat your home in the cold winter, then that’s not a big problem. If you can cool your home in a hot summer, then that’s not a problem. If you have houses that can withstand storms, then we don’t have a problem". Quite remarkable. 

Update - UK Methane Test Sites in Somerset

Yesterday (14/3/2013) at a public debate in Bath between UK Methane Ltd and Frack Free Somerset, UK Methane confirmed that they have been working on plans in the Ston Easton area and also around Compton Martin.

UK Methane Test Sites in Somerset

As reported by the BBC last week UK Methane have put their planning application at Hicks Gate, near Keynsham, on hold whilst they concentrate on other activities in Wales and Kent. However the company is also working on plans for test drilling elsewhere in Somerset and it is now understood that the two new sites are in the vicinities of Ston Easton and Compton Martin.
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