Bad chat this, but: gawd, isn’t the news boring at the moment? All “hoaxed data” this, and “can we trust scientists” that, and even the odd “Ooh look I found some data was a bit wrong” story.

None of which do anything to undermine the thrust that global warming/climate change is happening and needs to be acted on. The debate over the stats at the moment just goes to arguments as to how quickly it’s happening, not whether it is happening.

And frustratingly we seem to be back where we were 5 years or so ago with a significant proportion of people even doubting climate change altogether.

Isn’t it time for some good news, like “Scientists discover wicked algae which absorbs loads of carbon and then tastes better than beef when you eat it?” If we’re going to fake stuff, please can we fake that?