The Dialectics Of Global Warming - Independent

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"Rev up your SUV. Jump in a plane to New York for a morning meeting about how global warming is a “scam”, and head back in the afternoon. When you get back to your empty centrally-heated house, turn on that gas fire — and toss a copy of the Kyoto treaty on to the flames. This was the message this weekend from David Bellamy, still routinely dubbed as a “leading environmentalist”. Global warming? Chill, baby, chill.

For more than a decade now, the climate change deniers have been in retreat, humbled by the thumping weight of scientific evidence against them. More than 10,000 reputable, peer-reviewed climate scientists believe the evidence that rapid shifts in global temperature are caused by human activity. Seven – that’s seven – doubt it.

But Bellamy’s increasingly erratic outbursts over the past year have given the beleaguered band of anti-environmentalists a fresh gallon of petrol to fuel their flailing pro-carbon crusade. “My belief is that global warming is a largely natural phenomenon and the world is in danger of wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed and doesn’t need to be anyway,” he said, producing ecstasy in the offices of dozens of JRE wings.

Whenever a journalist writes about man-made climate change, a cascade of e-mails from across the Atlantic floods in. The Arctic ice-sheet has lost half its thickness in the past 30 years? The 1990s were the hottest decade of the millennium? The level of carbon in the atmosphere has been consistently rising over this period? “Coincidence!” they cry. They claim that anthropogenic climate change is “unproven”. They send “briefing papers” from corporate-funded think tanks, designed to give the impression that this is “a controversial debate with two sides”, and the UN Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – consisting of the world’s 2,500 best climatologists – was “fixed”.

They claim that they are “debunking myths” – but when you look at the evidence, it becomes clear that they entertain more myths than the ancient Greeks."

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http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=75306

[opihimoimoi]

1. Bush is one of the 7???

[carnie_sf]

2. I believe the 7 are scientists