I looked up his 2011 House of Lords testimony:
- The global mean surface temperature is always changing. Over the past 60 years, it has both decreased and increased.
- For the past century, it has probably increased by about 0.6 degrees Centigrade (C). That is to say, we have had some global mean warming.
- CO2 is a greenhouse gas and its increase should contribute to warming. It is, in fact, increasing, and a doubling would increase the radiative forcing of the earth (mainly due to water vapour and clouds) by about 2 per cent.
- There is good evidence that man has been responsible for the recent increase in CO2, though climate itself (as well as other natural phenomena) can also cause changes in CO2.
To this extent, and no further, Linden was it is legitimate to speak of a scientific consensus. He later ended noting a disconnect where:
• The fact that there is widespread and even rigorous scientific agreement that complete adherence to the Kyoto Agreement would have no discernible impact on climate.
• This clearly is of no importance to the thousands of negotiators, diplomats, regulators, general purpose bureaucrats and advocates attached to this issue.
There are a lot of stunts in environmental politics:
• Clinton signed the Kyoto protocol in 1997 but never submitted it to the Senate. Does that 801 days of inaction on the great moral issue of our time leave him steeped in moral turpitude?
• Did Obama ever submit the Kyoto protocol to the senate? Does that leave him steeped in moral turpitude?
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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