One resoundingly insightful voice of science and reason (MIchael Crichton) is silenced by cancer at the relatively young age of 66, while another (David Bellamy, 75) is silenced while still alive and vigorous, slowly and quietly by what amounts to a black-list by state-run media. He writes:

According to official data, in every year since 1998 world temperatures have been getting colder…

[Note: not merely the aggregate change over the course of ten years, which ought to be enough evidence to make the scientific dialogue more balanced, but in every single one of those ten years. Colder. And, to the degree that people may argue about surface data -- which altitude, city heat-island effects, etc. -- the data from the deep oceans, which everyone agrees drives 80-90% of climate, are unequivocal: Cooling.]

At the beginning of this year there was a BBC show with four experts saying: “This is going to be the end of all the ice in the Arctic,” and hypothesising that it was going to be the hottest summer ever… [yet] it was very cold and very wet and now we’ve seen evidence that the glaciers in Alaska have started growing rapidly – and they’ve not grown for a long time.

…there is absolutely no proof that carbon dioxide is anything to do with any impending catastrophe. The ­science has, quite simply, gone awry. In fact, it’s not even science any more, it’s anti-science… it’s just projections and if you look at the models people such as Gore use, you can see they cherry pick the ones that support their beliefs.

To date, the way the so-called Greens and the BBC, the Royal Society and even our political parties have handled this smacks of McCarthyism at its worst.

Global warming is part of a natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

And how were we convinced that this problem exists, even though all the evidence from measurements goes against the fact? God knows. Yes, the lakes in Africa are drying up. But that’s not global warming. They’re drying up for the very ­simple reason that most of them have dams around them.
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One of Al Gore’s biggest clangers was saying that the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was drying up because of global warming. Well, everyone knows, because it was all over the news 20 years ago, that the Russians were growing cotton there at the time and that for every ton of cotton you produce you use a vast amount of water.

The thing that annoys me most is that there are genuine environmental problems that desperately require attention. I’m still an environmentalist, I’m still a Green and I’m still campaigning to stop the destruction of the biodiversity of the world. But money will be wasted on trying to solve this global warming “problem” that I would much rather was used for looking after the people of the world.

P.S., the ‘wisdom’ of the climate models can be rendered foolish by the most humble of things.