The Spectator, even under the dodgy editorship of Matthew "Ronnie" d'Ancona, is still one of the few publications prepared to splash "Relax: Global Warming is a Myth" all over its cover.The article, written by the shy and retiring James Delingpole, is an interview with Prof Ian Plimer, an Australian geologist who calls a spade a bloody shovel, and knows how to use it.
He has written the counter-argument to Gore and Stern. Needless to say, his publishers (his previous book had been a bestseller) were too chicken to touch this one, and he ended up using an Outback family firm, who thankfully have seen their sensible decision rewarded with a book on its sixth print run already. Buy it!
The idle policy on Gaia is pretty straightforward - in favour of responsible consumption and sustainable practices, against alarmists and proselytizers, and my antennae shake like palm trees in a hurricane when governments start framing huge tax programmes based upon the Need to Save the Earth.
My instinct is that Prof Plimer is a good 'un. He'd beat Al Gore in an arm wrestle and he'd beat him hands down intellectually and evidence-based on the great Global Warming Con Trick.
Does he really believe his message will ever get through? Plimer smiles. ‘If you’d asked any scientist or doctor 30 years ago where stomach ulcers come from, they would all have given the same answer: obviously it comes from the acid brought on by too much stress. All of them apart from two scientists who were pilloried for their crazy, whacko theory that it was caused by a bacteria. In 2005 they won the Nobel prize. The “consensus” was wrong.’
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The thing that makes me deeply suspicious about the theory of Global Warming is that politicians (sadly, of all colours) believe that the answer is to tax everything that moves.
If God had wanted us to drive round in a G-Wizz, we'd have been born with castors fitted to our bums....
O/T - I am receiving emails in Somerset but not able to send them for the moment, for inexplicable reasons. Down West Sussex way next Sat and Sun; Sat being teh Midhurst Monthly market and Sun being the rare Breeds Show at Singleton Museum, afterwards at the Gold Cup. Will keep trying on the comms.
Have to comment on the cricket! Agreed absolutely on your comment; the bollocks of 20-20 and unlimited swag means that we have veryt few players who know how to build a orper innnings. A Boycott. A Barrington. A Denness, peradventure.
I was once a keen follower of country cricket, and the one day game. There is so much cricket now, that a) I don't know when anything is on ()bar tests) & b) I don't know what the competitions are any more.
So I only pay interest to the test match; wonderful game to watch, this one, but only because we got away with gross irreponsibility.
Stocks on the ground after the game, Pieterson, unlimited rotten tomatoes for the fans. Get over yourself man!
"Global warming" became "Climate change".
Why?
In our supposedly post religious age we have a new religion and like all young and ambitious religions it brooks no dissent....toe the line Idle my good man.
Hm... the consensus may have been wrong in 2005, but my stomach ulcer WAS the result of a year of stress... not bacteria.
However, it COULD have been the result of
a) acid rain
b) fear of itinerant polar bear attack
c) Michael Moore
Answers on a postcard, please....
Goodness! A visit from the Mermaid. A rare sight nowadays; too busy writing books, one gathers.
The very thought of a mermaid with a stomach ulcer is dispiriting. Probably a bad sardine, or a dodgy cockle.
never a dodgy cockle, dear Idle, never a dodgy cockle!
I've been bad at blogging - too much work to do - but I am endeavouring to make up for the work I have to do out of hours by blogging during my working hours...
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