Despite Kyoto's coming into force, vigorous debate between and among climate sceptics and climate hawks continues.
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In some local matters, even right-wing climate sceptics and climate-conscious lefties concur.
Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?
Prof Beddington's comments come at a time when "climate sceptics" have been challenging claims by scientists that the release of CO2 into the atmosphere is increasing global temperatures.
And Giles Harrison believes climate sceptics need to apply the same scepticism to the cosmic ray theory as they do to greenhouse warming - particularly those who say there are too many holes in our understanding of how clouds behave in the man-made greenhouse.
One can only hope that more of the media become as wary as The Economist about self-proclaimed climate-change sceptics.
Some climate change "sceptics" claim that this process, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, can explain much of the Earth's recent rise in temperature.
Some e-mails suggest the criticisms made by sceptics outside academic climate science may have had more support within it than might be expected.
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Sceptics point out that each mistake has tended to exaggerate the extent of climate change.
While the IPCC recently said it was more certain that climate change was happening, and that human activities were at least partly to blame, the sceptics say it has failed to explain several anomalies.
That satisfied global-warming sceptics in the ruling party but failed to address rising public concern over the environment and climate change.
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