Godfrey Bloom

Check out Professor Ian Plimer's excellent piece in today's Mail. He uses a geological timescale to put global warming and climate change hysteria into sensible perspective.

Human activity produces only three per cent of the world's carbon-dioxide emissions each year. One volcanic belch can emit as much as that in a day. Carbon dioxide has a short life in the atmosphere and is absorbed by natural processes that have been taking place for billions of years. ...

We are still in an ice age that started 34million years ago, with the climate driven, among other things, by the Earth's orbit, the Sun, oceans and volcanoes. It is vital to remember that time, in a geological sense, is a far broader canvas than any of the detailed vignettes upon which the prophets of doom would have us focus.

This article was written in the wake of Climategate, of course. So after putting current temperatures into a geological context, Plimer puts climate change hysteria into a more human perspective.

Why is this story contrary to what we hear? Because sensationalism is so much more lucrative. A climate catastrophe was provided for an anxious public by scientists who had everything to gain by frightening us.

They put forward an ideology that is blind fundamentalism, unrelated to scientific facts. Politicians build new bureaucracies and pose as environmental saviours without having to face the consequences of their actions. Heads must roll. Meanwhile, the planet will do what it has always done: change.

For those still confused about Climategate there is a neat little video on Youtube that gives an overview of some of the key players and what they've been up to.

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