Twice last week The Times indulged in scare-mongering: a 10inTen spread of imaginary sea-rises, then Thursday's irresponsible half-page of flannel from Eric Holthaus on "fresh climate data". If you are writing matric this year you will not have experienced any climate warming - "the pause" of 18 years, as it is called, which none of the alarmist computer models can explain.We have not had any warmer temperature this century than were known in the Medieval Warm Period.Professor Tim Flannery, Australia's climate commissioner, in 2008 claimed there would be no more ice over the Arctic in five years, and Al Gore said "the entire north polar ice cap will be gone in five years".We now have more than 400ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere whereas there are 40000 ppm of water vapour - and water vapour is a far greater greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. And yet we still have had no temperature rise for 18 years.The "hockey-stick graph", which wrongly showed a massive increase in global temperature in the last century, Gore's discredited documentary and the intergovernmental panel on climate change have induced over-eager governments and politicians to commit the poor of the world to a trillion-dollar industrial grand project to try to change the weather.I hope China and India stand up for the poor at the Paris Climate Change Conference next month and heartily oppose this madness. ..