It Must Be Global Warming

I haven’t had much time in the past few months to update my website due to working and other commitments. However, hopefully this will change in the next few weeks as I free up more time.

In the mean time I’ve been keeping tabs on the whole ‘Climategate’ saga which thankfully blew up a few months ago before the Copenhagen Climate talks. Much of the foot work was done by the blogs both in this country and in the United States as the mainstream media sort to bury their heads in the sands and managed to turn a collective blind eye.

Today has seen heavy snowfall right across the country causing disruption to traffic networks and business. However, predictably the usual suspects have been quick to claim that what is predicted to be the coldest winter in thirty years is not, in any way whatsoever, in conflict with man-made global warming.

If you haven’t read it already, Dr Richard North wrote an excellent article for the Mail on Sunday about how the Met Office has been so wrong about its long term forecasts. I am also about to start reading Christopher Booker’s latest tome on the subject of Global Warming and Climate Change which comes highly recommended.

As I write, it is beginning to snow again, so I leave you with a photograph of all that Global Warming in my garden this morning. Clearly I had absolutely nothing better to do…

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Booker On Global Warming

I attended an interesting gathering hosted by The Freedom Association last night at the Swan Hotel in Wells with Christopher Booker as the principal speaker and guest of honour.

The talk acted as somewhat of a preview to his forthcoming book titled The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with ‘climate change’ turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? which is out soon, and laid out the case against anthropogenic Global Warming.

Having read Richard North and Christopher Booker’s The Great Deception, Scared to Death, and both the Booker column and Richard North’s EU Referendum, much of the content of the speech was pretty familiar. However, it is always appreciable, as Booker noted in his speech, to be able to meet other people of likeminded opinions in warm and friendly surroundings.

A video of the event should be available on the internet at some point in the near future. There were also amusing speeches from TFA Chairman, Roger Helmer MEP and the Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson. All in all a very enjoyable night, and a welcome opportunity to finally meet Mr Booker before he, in his own words, is ‘tucked up safely in the church yard across the way’. Hopefully such an event will not be for many years hence!

Global Cooling

In his weekly column in the Telegraph on Sunday it seems that once again Christopher Booker is the only journalist within the mainstream media to be highlighting the increasing degree of evidence against Global Warming theory.

As he points out, when the snow cover on Snowdonia fell between 2003 and 2007 the mass media crowed that this was of course evidence of global warming caused by human activity. But now that Snowdonia has experienced abnormally deep snowfall this year, guess what, it has rarely if ever been mentioned by the same ‘concerned’ media.

NumberWatch, in a humorous ‘rebuke’ of Christopher Booker’s latest article points out that:

The snows of Snowden are a case in point. They were news while they were shrinking, but when that goes into reverse, the rules of modern polite society require the quiet turning of a blind eye.

Equally interesting is the way in which the eco-lobby and the green left have begun to noticeably shift their rhetoric and focus from ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Climate Change’ when it turns out that the facts don’t suit their warming theory. Amusing if it were not so serious is the recent suggestion by some more ‘scientists’ that the recent large increase in Antarctica ice is down to (yes, you guessed it) global warming. Once again it is apparently man that is causing the Arctic to warm while Antarctica to cool.

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Climate Denial

Yesterday evening I attended an event at the Abbey in Bath called ‘Climate Change: A Public Debate’ to which over three hundred and fifty people from Bath and the surrounding areas also turned up to listen.

Yet, for the organisers to call the speaking event a debate was incredibly (and probably purposefully) misleading because in fact all members on the panel of so-called ‘experts’ were in complete agreement and therefore there was no actual debate of any kind at all. Not once did they disagree.

This point was starkly illustrated within the first five minutes of the ‘debate’ fully beginning. The first question put to the panel by the Chairman of the event, Roger Nunn, was something along the lines of ‘where are we in the Climate Change debate’ and could the panel briefly explain Climate Change.

This was put first to Professor Anil Markandya who is, it should be noted, a lecturer in Economics at the University of Bath (ie. not an environmental scientist) and also a member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Professor Markandya proceeded to tell the assembled audience that Climate Change was caused by human activity in releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and that there was a consensus among the scientific community on this supposed ‘fact’. The other three panellists unsurprisingly agreed entirely.

Yet, how exactly can something firstly be called ‘fact’ when it is scientifically disputed, and secondly where is the consensus when many scientists still profoundly disagree with the theory (for it is only a theory) that man-made CO2 production is the main component of global warming?

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