What is climate? It’s an average over time.

Well, as we know, the weather is never exactly the same over time.

So, as each year passes, it impacts the climate over time.

Example.

Here is a series of weather numbers:

5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, …

What is the average? The average is 5. The “climate” is five.

Here is a series of weather numbers:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 …

The climate is 3.5

After next year the climate is 4.

The climate is changing due to the weather.

The weather doesn’t “change” due to the “climate”.

In I hope a similar vein and endorsing earlier observations you have made on the political discourse -

here is a link to an oped piece in our national daily ( Murdoch press )

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25883370-7583,00.html

“Carbon captures UK imagination”

The author is a respected and experienced journalist and editor.

And my reading suggests he has been utterly captured by the zeitgeist within your corridors of power – the undoubted energy of your Mili-Band of Brothers ( and Sisters ) LOL.

“In Whitehall, many of the civil service advisers are young, enthusiasts and women. Behind the parties are tacticians who argue that climate change credentials are critical to carry the under-40 voters. ”

That young political apparatchiks want to re-make the world urgently is not surprising. And, with enough reading, is it surprising to find longterm political correspondents happy to see momentum for change – almost any sort of change – actually snowballing for once ?

The concern of course being – is this change ultimately worthwhile and merited, which is the main debate.

However, I think this article demonstrates from an outsiders perspective why virtually no alternate views on climate and energy policy flow through to the elected representatives.

Your government – and I would dare to suggest a lot of governments in the democratic, developed world – have been captured by one voice. History suggests that this will not resolve itself happily.