Richard Black, Environment correspondent for the BBC News, reports that – no shocker here –  global warming does, in fact,  seem to be occurring.

The Earth’s surface really is getting warmer, a new analysis by a US scientific group set up in the wake of the “Climategate” affair has concluded.The Berkeley Earth Project has used new methods and some new data, but finds the same warming trend seen by groups such as the UK Met Office and Nasa.The project received funds from sources that back organisations lobbying against action on climate change.”Climategate”, in 2009, involved claims global warming had been exaggerated.Emails of University of East Anglia UEA climate scientists were hacked, posted online and used by critics to allege manipulation of climate change

via BBC News – Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study.