The new climate change defence: 'Yes, it's getting colder, but it's not as cold as it would be without global warming'

By Harry Mount Politics
Last updated: April 15th, 2010
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There’s a wonderful little nugget in today’s Telegraph, where Professor Mike Lockwood, a space physicist at Reading University, predicts that we’re about to go through the coldest winters for 300 years. But, he says, they’d be even colder if it weren’t for global warming. So the climate changers get to have their cake and eat it. http://preview.tinyurl.com/y4rhcg2

I call it the Managed Expectations Device (MED for short), a classic tool for making unbeatable arguments: “Yes, we lost the war,â€