Like Prof Latif, Prof Tsonis is not a climate change denier. There is, he said, a measure of additional background warming due to human activity and greenhouse gases that runs across the MDO cycles.
But he added: I do not believe in catastrophe theories. Man-made warming is balanced by the natural cycles, and I do not trust the computer models which state that if CO2 reaches a particular level then temperatures and sea levels will rise by a given amount.
'These models cannot be trusted to predict the weather for a week, yet they are running them to give readings for 100 years.