The UK Guardian on the UK Royal Society climate report

The UK's Guardian -- a bit more staid than the Daily Mail or the Sun -- has an article about the new Royal Society report on climate change.

Royal Society's climate change guide cuts confusion out of the hard science

Understandably and predictably, the skeptics have taken aim at this one; perhaps I'll say more about that later. But I was particularly enamored of two passages from this article:

1. "The Royal Society's new report, by contrast, limits itself entirely to the physical science of climate change, and it is careful to lay out every qualification and uncertainty. But Pethica stresses that this approach does not signify an acceptance of criticisms that scientists had overstated their case in the past. "If the report sounds cautious, that's because the IPCC is cautious … There is no change in the science."

2. Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute, described the new guide as "excellent" and "an authoritative summary of the current state of knowledge".

That said, here's the report.