BELLAMY AGAIN

I mentioned on 5th an article by distinguished botanist and environmentalist David Bellamy which rubbished the global warming scare. I have now tracked down a fuller version of the article. You can find it here or here (PDF). Some excerpts:

"Ah, ice ages ... those absolutely massive changes in global climate, that environmentalists don't like to talk about because they provide such strong evidence that climate change is an entirely natural phenomenon. It was round about the end of the last ice age, some 13,000 years ago that a global warming process did undoubtedly begin.

Not because of all those Stone Age folk roasting mammoth meat on fossil fuel camp fires but because of something called 'Milankovitch Cycles', an entirely natural fact of planetary life that depends on the tilt of the Earth's axis and its orbit around the sun....

Up and down, up and down - that is how temperature and climate have always gone in the past and there is no proof that they are not still doing exactly the same now. In other wards, climate change is an entirely natural phenomenon, nothing to do with the burning of fossil fuels.

In fact, a recent scientific paper, rather unenticingly titled 'Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations over the Last Glacial Termination,' proved it. It showed that increases in temperature are responsible for increased in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels not the other way around....

The real truth is that the main greenhouse gas - the one that has the most direct effect on land temperatures - is water vapour, 99 percent of which is entirely natural. If all the water vapour was removed from the atmosphere, the temperature of the planet would fall by 33 degrees Celsius. But remove all the carbon dioxide and the temperature might fall by just 0.3 percent. Although we wouldn't be around because without it there would be no green plants, no herbivorous farm animals and no food for us to eat.

It has been estimated that the cost of cutting fossil fuel emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol would be £76 trillion. Little wonder then that world leaders are worried. So should we all be. If we signed up to these scaremongers, we could be about to waste a gargantuan amount of money on a problem that doesn’t exist - money that could be used in umpteen better ways, fighting world hunger, providing clean drinking water, developing alternative energy sources, improving our environment, creating jobs."

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Many people would like to be kind to others so Leftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless.

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