• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

I hope this gap is narrowing and you succeed in that. When you last appeared here at Mayor's Question Time you did tell us that the ODA would come back with an improve set of sustainability standards and you said, `If they do not, I will join you in making sure they do'. I obviously put this to David Higgins and he replied, `We do not want to go back and redo all our policies or strategies or redo targets'. In terms of pushing to close this gap, who is going to win, you or David Higgins?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

But I would not really trust Al Gore particularly either, and that is the reason why there is a debate which surely, Mayor, as I have asked for, if you agree to a showing of one side, which a lot of people say is not factual, can we show the other side?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

All the scientists on that programme were not barking mad.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

So that means he should not be allowed to have a voice?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

But many of these scientists -

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You cannot seriously say that an alternate view is the equivalent of David Irving. That is the whole business about implying holocaust denier, global warning denier, that is like trying to create -

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Thank you, Mayor. Given the fact that the full IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report was not made available at the time, and given the fact that many of the scientists who were quoted in it themselves had to take legal action to be disassociated from it because of the fact that the final draft of the communiqué avoided all of the doubts, all the question marks and all the qualifications, my only point really of this question is that you put something on with Al Gore -- let me just quote what he said himself about his own...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Just a brief point, Mr Mayor. What worries me is that this green debate is no longer scholarship, it has been taken over by politics. The discussion is now driven by politically driven forces with little interest in the value of free intellectual enquiry. That is what I think is being drowned out here. Science never stops. The debate is never over. Scientists are never at an end point. There is always more to be discovered. You find that in one decade the scientists say one thing, and then a decade later they say something else because they have moved...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I think my point is that, compared to the mid 1990s, there is absolutely no difference whatsoever, and that is the Department of Transport's own figures. But I do not particularly want to get hung up on that. I just think it is worth pointing out that you would therefore be claiming a significant improvement when your road speeds come out.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

No, I am asking for information which will complement your request, Angie.