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Bob Ward boobs again over rainfall records

Telegraph: What an odd fellow is Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director for the lavishly-funded Grantham Institute on Climate Change at Colonel Gaddafi' s favourite British university, the LSE. Mr Ward seems to see it as one of his main roles to act as chief attack dog for the global warming industry, firing off incessant complaints, letters and articles savaging anyone who dares question its cherished dogmas. On our letters page last week, he yet again took me to task for suggesting that autumn 2000...

What was the role of warmists in the Queensland flood disaster?

Telegraph: Ever more alarming facts are emerging to show how Brisbane's floods were made infinitely worse by cockeyed decisions inspired by the obsession of the Australian authorities with global warming. Inevitably, the country's warmist lobby has been voluble in claiming that such a "freak weather event' (as the BBC called it) is a consequence of man-made climate change. But far from being an unprecedented "freak event', the latest flood was nearly a foot below the level of one in 1974 and 10 feet below the...