Certain newspapers, particularly the Telegraph, are far more commendable than the rest of the media. But I suspect far more people are influenced by the BBC, who are screaming consensus just as loudly as ever.

I'm not sure what proportion of people are turning a blind eye, how many are stupid and how many are just lying. But I'd say the government is guilty of manslaughter, having ignored extreme weather forecasts for no reason other than that they come from deniers of CO2 driven climate.

"It's the Sun, stupid," might be simplistic, and I can see why it annoys a lot of oceanographers and atmospheric scientists. But I can also see why solar physicists are excited, given the extraordinary details they're able to predict, so far ahead.

Another proportion I'm unsure of is how many of the winter's road deaths were preventable.

What really is troublesome today is the fact that, despite all the adverse revelations about the 2007 IPCC Report, western governments around the world still treat the IPCC Report as the "gold standard" in science. They remain in a state of denial over all that has been revealed to be wrong with the IPCC and its 2007 report, and they remain true to the theology that CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is the key driver of catastrophic global warming and climate change… even though there now appears to be common ground that there has been no discernible increase in average global temperature over the last 15 years.

Governments also seem to prefer turning a blind eye to all the latest science that has been contradicting the 2007 IPCC Report. The only conclusion I can come to is that governments have been determined to regulate CO2 for the purpose of increasing government revenues on the pretext of doing something about global warming, which they still keep telling us is happening, even though it hasn't been happening for the last 15 years.