Sunday, November 30, 2008

No such thing as Global Warming

Says David Belamy. Remember him? He was a scientist who hosted several TV shows in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also arrested for staging a protest at the Franklin Dam site.

Anyway read on...

"According to official data, in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that? The sad fact is that since I said I didn't believe human beings caused global warming, I've not been allowed to make a television program.

My absence has been noticed, because wherever I go I meet people who say: "I grew up with you on the television, where are you now?"

It was in 1996 that I criticised wind farms while appearing on children's program Blue Peter, and I also had an article published in which I described global warming as poppycock. The truth is, I didn't think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy, so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line, and I wasn't doing that.

At that point, I was still making loads of TV programs and I was enjoying it greatly. Then I suddenly found I was sending in ideas for TV shows and they weren't getting taken up. I've asked around about why I've been ignored, but I found that people didn't get back to me. 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. Was it hell! It was very cold and very wet and now we've seen evidence that the glaciers in Alaska have started growing rapidly, and they have not grown for a long time.

I've seen evidence, which I believe, that says there has not been a rise in global temperature since 1998, despite the increase in carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere. This makes me think the global warmers are telling lies: CO2 is not the driver. The idiot fringe has accused me of being like a Holocaust denier, which is ludicrous. Climate change is all about cycles. It's a natural thing and has always happened. When the Romans lived in Britain they were growing very good red grapes and making wine on the borders of Scotland. It was evidently a lot warmer.

If you were sitting next to me 10,000 years ago, we'd be under ice. So thank God for global warming for ending that ice age; we wouldn't be here otherwise.

Read the rest here: Aust

5 comments:

Kathleen Ang said...

I read the article, and even some comments. It seems to be that people are spending an awful lot of time stating what they think is the truth.
And if the world lives according to the philosophy of "relativism" (which is hogwash, utter nonsense anyway) they can argue global warming and climate change to death and beyond.

Either way, however you argue, the truth is, we have stewardship over our environment. Instead of spending time arguing, we could really spend that time taking good care of everything we have, and making responsible choices about our consumption of things.

Yauming YMC said...

The issue for David was that a lot of resources are being wasted in trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. An irony don't you think? And skeptics who dare to question the orthodoxy view of the radicals - are being silenced. Which to me - is also very ironic!!

Kathleen Ang said...

well, it's politics dressed in science. It's really tricky and cunning since many people believe in the neutrality of science and the media

David Bellamy is a scientist who is starting to be aware of the manipulation of politics. Politics did that with religion and is still doing it. Since science is the next faith, why not introduce carbon tithing into the holy temple of science? Lots of money to be made here!

Yauming YMC said...

Carbon tithing is already been done under the guise of the Emission Trading Scheme. New Zealand has to fork out several billion dollars because of its "emissions". Yes, NZ. The land of sheep and green grass. Insane isn't it?

Kathleen Ang said...

blame it on sheep and cow farting. soon people have to pay for exhaling CO2.