[Devongone]

Add in the reported record levels of CO2 in the earth's upper atmosphere Devongone! Whose fault? We've been debating this ozone issue for long enough since Berlin 1995 and prob well before that 1st 'UN Climate Change  Conference'. IMO greed and self-interest prevails regardless - not enough major participants heeding the warnings!

Academically we seem keen to append the word science to anything in the belief that it adds to its veracity. It is the equivalent of Paul Daniels's white coat, which allowed him to proclaim a trick had been performed under laboratory conditions. No it wasn't Paul! And no, Economics, Business, Finance, Sociology, Psychology and a whole range of other subjects don't become science just because you add the word and plunder the odd statistic and a contentious probability here and there.

But then a lot of science is so keen to step outside itself and be popular it forgets to be scientific too.

We have regressed so far that we need a picture of a dead three-year-old on a beach to stimulate us emotionally and intellectually we'll debate facts forever, irrespective of whether they are already proven fact, or fiction. Global warming's just a picture of a dying glacier crashing another iceberg into an ocean no-one visits. Put it on Facebook, collect a few likes. Put it next to Kevin Spacey looking gay.