I was hoping that you were going to tell us what qualifications you've got in climate science, John otSC. Instead you just keep on repeating the same old mantra which adds NOTHING to the debate.

It adds nothing to the debate because, OF COURSE, reputable climate scientists know about cyclical climate change - do you think that they don't? Do you know how science works? What the scientists' models are telling them is that there is now an additional, very large, man-made component to the cycle resulting from the burning of fossil fuels.

There seems to be a common pattern among sceptics and deniers of all types. They generally seem to know very little about how science works but they seize on one or two variables that they do know about (e.g. "Climate change is real and cyclical") and imagine that these trump every other variable that the REAL scientists are dealing with.