One sometimes gets frustrated reading our Daily/Sunday Telegraph. So many of their columnists, and those who comment on blogs, think that "Global Warming" is a man-made political scam, a another appendage to the giant bloodsucker that is the Treasury, and a gravy train for politicians.
Christopher Booker is a columnist who has been always on the lookout for new regulations enacted by the EU, and those in the UK who over-zealously apply them. Alas, he is among the global warming sceptics. Now read this letters column, not all of it, but using the search string Scientific spectacle. Doesn't it make the US citizens among you think of Benedict Arnold?
The BBC has long had a fanatical horror of product placement, not even allowing the label of a Cola bottle to appear in any of its productions. Now there are suggestions that this might change. The last letter in the same column is amusing.
Here, I think there is some skepticism about motivation but no real actual doubt about global warming outside a few. It's simple physics; add more people into any closed area and have more work being done and the space will get warmer. But Britain, like the US, has to regard both a gas and a target/date dictated by France and Germany with political suspicion. If Germany wanted to be credible, they would have picked a CO2 target from before the merger with the east instead of one in which all their 'gains' could come from closing WW2-era soviet factories in East Germany - picking the date they did instead of even a year earlier was obvious. If France wanted legitimacy, they would have included greenhouse gases besides CO2 in Kyoto - they are 80% nuclear power, which produces no CO2, so they could reduce theirs by just adding more nuclear power, an option not really available in Britain and the US.
So we may not agree with the science Sunday Telegraph choose to accept, at least they are not sheep.