Today’s forecast: yet another blast of hot air
David Bellamy, the British naturalist and nature educator, blasted global warming in his recent column in the Times.
“Am I worried about man-made global warming? The answer is ‘no’ and ‘yes’.
No, because the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction has come up against an ‘inconvenient truth’. Its research shows that since 1998 the average temperature of the planet has not risen, even though the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has continued to increase.
Yes, because the self-proclaimed consensus among scientists has detached itself from the questioning rigours of hard science and become a political cause. Those of us who dare to question the dogma of the global-warming doomsters who claim that C not only stands for carbon but also for climate catastrophe are vilified as heretics or worse as deniers.
I am happy to be branded a heretic because throughout history heretics have stood up against dogma based on the bigotry of vested interests. But I don’t like being smeared as a denier because deniers don’t believe in facts. The truth is that there are no facts that link the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming. Instead of facts, the advocates of man-made climate change trade in future scenarios based on complex and often unreliable computer models.”
“But the computer model – called ‘hockey stick’ – that predicted the catastrophe of a frying planet proved to be so bent that it ‘disappeared’ from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s armoury of argument in 2007. It was bent because the historical data it used to predict the future dated from only the 1850s, when the world was emerging from the Little Ice Age. Little wonder that temperatures showed an upward trend.”
“Let’s turn to Al Gore’s doom-laden Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. First, what is the point of scaring the families of the world with tales that polar bears are heading for extinction? Last year Mitchell Taylor, of the US National Biological Service, stated that ‘of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.’
Why create alarm about a potential increase in the spread of malaria thanks to rising temperatures when this mosquito-borne disease was a major killer of people in Britain and northern Russia throughout the Little Ice Age?”
The answer, David, is that today’s environment lobby are basically genocidalists, especially Mr Gore. The rise in malaria isn’t caused by rising temperatures, but by their campaign for a ban on DDT. They press for a ban on the development of third world countries on the basis of their “carbon footprint,” and they encourage the use of food for energy, forcing the price of basic staples to a point where the worlds poorest can’t afford them.
They are running television advertising campaigns here to encourage us to stop using energy, and encouraging the replacement of high energy flux density power generation, with low energy flux density power generation, such as wind turbines.
These people need to be challenged. Glad to see you back in the fight.