Financial Times: Speaking at a conference run by the European Space Agency in Edinburgh last month, David Willetts, the UK science minister, recounted how he had recently sat next to a climate sceptic, or you could say, denier, at a dinner. He had been able to rebut this persons scepticism about the earths shrinking polar ice caps by using data from the ESAs Cryosat satellite mission, which measures the extent and thickness of polar ice from space.
It was a heartening moment for those of us who have noticed...