There will be a lot of posts on this subject since I have spent a great deal of time researching it and even wrote a longish paper on the subject.
In a recent Australian letter Professor Any Pitman chastised Jon Jenkins. He was criticized because he was a virologist commenting on the subject of climate change. Professor Pitman belongs to the Climate Change Research Centre of the University of NSW and is also an IPCC lead author. Sounds impressive and so I imagine that a lot of people took notice of his comments but did no further research, I did.
Professor Pitmann specializes in computer modeling with a specific focus on extreme weather events. You can look him and his centre up for further information http://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/.
Dr Jon Jenkins is a awarded doctor who has a web site http://www.trac.org.au/. You will find that he has an anti-left-green stance on subject like global warming. He studied life sciences, was in parliment and has done some work with computer modelling.
Pitman's attack was the standard ad-hominem one, i.e. he attacked the person not the science. His 'science,' that of computer modelling has been debunked in a plethora of papers and by actual measurements and events over the past decade. I'll leave comments on the individual to others.
Climate change is a reality, it has happened for millennium, man's influence (if any) is so minuscule and unimportant that it can be ignored, and probably has been by nature.
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