Climategate latest. Consensus of scientists or 'a lot of hot air underpinned by fraud'?

As you can see in this harrowing picture, this poor polar bear is balancing on just two paws because all the ice around him has been melted by global warming – which as we are frequently told is caused by us who ride motorbikes and even more evil people who go by plane. Oh deary me. Or maybe there is another explanation for what is really going on....

...Could it even be that Governments are using Climate Change as a 'Con to raise taxes' ?

I have just seen two articles today which extend the ongoing debate which is increasingly being called Climategate – and despite the odd way Google is reacting to searches for it. The first introduces the word FRAUD to the mix of criticisms levelled at the bods in our very own CRU with the significance of climategate outlined today – and who at the very least have been 'selective' when deciding what they will and won't reveal from the science they are paid to investigate and report on by various governments including ours in the UK.

The other reveals another development in this increasingly heated debate that may well prove to be of equal or even greater significance. It turns out that a Backlash is building a head of steam against blind faith in man-made global warming among key Tories in the UK.

Now, the bottom line for me is this. I am called all sorts of things because I ride a bike, albeit mostly behind my back by folk who don't have the balls to say them to my face. And frankly, I couldn't give a stuff about them anyway unless they are getting in the way of important stuff to me. This includes making realistic plans to really reduce pollution in a genuinely sustainable way, and improving road safety for ALL vulnerable road users – rather than just talking emotive tosh about it – which many do.

So, sorry but I really am getting sick of being called a 'denier ' just because I don't wholeheartedly believe claims that are based on cherry-picked data and by people may be fiddling the figures to get the results they need to keep up appearances of being right about climate change and global warming.