Daily (and Sunday) Mail in climate change distortion shocker!

I know, it's hard to imagine such an upstanding publication behaving badly, but even the most virtuous amongst us have our weaknesses, and the Mail never lets the facts get in the way of its beliefs, particularly if those facts are complicated.

It said that Professor Mojib Latif's research into ocean temperatures showed that we're entering a period of global cooling rather than warming, that our current cold weather proves a move towards warming, and that the research undermined the 'most cherished beliefs' of climate change scientists.

What did Professor Latif say? He says that ocean temperatures may make more of a difference to temperatures than other researchers, but he's not out of line on the major challenges facing us. Well done, Mail.

 "What we are experiencing now is a weather phenomenon, while we talked about the mean temperature over the next 10 years. You can't compare the two."

It comes as a surprise to me that people would try to use my statements to try to dispute the nature of global warming. I believe in manmade global warming. I have said that if my name was not Mojib Latif it would be global warming."

He added: "There is no doubt within the scientific community that we are affecting the climate, that the climate is changing and responding to our emissions of greenhouse gases."

 "There are numerous newspapers, radio stations and television channels all trying to get our attention. Some overstate and some want to downplay the problem as a way to get that attention," he said. "We are trying to discuss in the media a highly complex issue. Nobody would discuss the problem of [Einstein's theory of] relativity in the media. But because we all experience the weather, we all believe that we can assess the global warming problem."