Latest UK CO2 emissions figures

"on average" yes.

However when the Big One comes (and it will) hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust and "stuff" will be pumped into the atmosphere and thus reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the earth. And I suspect that all the modelling in the world can't accurately confirm or predict how this will affect climate in the long term

A policy whose outcome cannot be measured is a green light for corruption

Indeed, the famous hockey stick graph has been 'debunked'. However, the graph was no more nor less than the output of the secret climate model, and that appears *not* to have been debunked.

It seems unlikely that our climate actually has a significant positive feedback component, given the reasonable stability of the last million years or so, and the failure of previous warmings and coolings to show typical positive-feedback behaviour.

I’ll bet that the ‘secret climate model’ hasn’t been debunked because, well, the clue’s in the name…:-)

And it’s certain that the model from decades ago is now Secret Climate Model v1001.

Quite. All the talk of tipping points, positive feedbacks, and thermal runaways is just that: mere blather to keep the faithful on track.

Polar bears disappeared from the climate narrative when it was due to be reported at COP19 in Copenhagen that of the twenty colonies being monitored, nineteen were thriving and the twentieth was facing adverse local conditions. The researcher due to give the report had his travel funds withdrawn and so didn’t attend. Funny, that.

Hard to debunk a model that Mann refuses to release for peer review...

Exactly.

It turned out the real threat to polar bears was man made hunting rifles.

Once they banned hunting, they thrived and are now a pest

One other thing that has been driving our drop in emissions is the switch from coal to gas for our power generation.

We've completed that now, and it will be interesting to see what happens now.

(especially on a cold windless January night...)

Andy