Hi all,
well the Guardianistas must be fuming
, bellamy has again dismissed man-made global warming
and he is not the only one. I think it was on Tyne-Tees TV so I wouldn't have seen it but here's the article from the Scotsman:
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3910787
Television conservationist David Bellamy has dismissed claims that global warming is threatening the future of the world.
In a TV interview yesterday, the 71-year-old environmentalist said climate change was not a modern phenomenon and has happened throughout history.
Dr Bellamy, who lives in Weardale, County Durham, said wide variations in the British weather have been recorded in history, and the 0.6C rise in the last hundred years was not worth worrying about.
Speaking on Tyne Tees Television’s Sunday Interview programme, Dr Bellamy said: “Samuel Pepys recorded enormous hurricanes in London, at the same time they were roasting oxen on the Thames (which had frozen).
“In the Middle Ages they were growing grapes all over the place (in Britain), it was nice and warm.
“But 10,000 years ago in County Durham, we would have been under the ice.
“The temperature has been going up and down for a number of years.”
While temperatures on the ground may have risen, Dr Bellamy said higher up in the earth’s atmosphere they had not.
“Now all of a sudden, a 0.6C rise down here, when there has been no rise up there, is being linked to CO2.
“We are not about to be overcome by global warming.”
The scientist’s views differ greatly from that of Prime Minister Tony Blair who this summer warned: “Global warming is a worse threat to humanity than international terrorism.”
While some claimed this August was the wettest ever, and evidence of climate change, Dr Bellamy said periods during the early 1800s were just as rainy.
“They should check their facts,” he said.
The green campaigner also spoke out against wind farms, which he claims damage the countryside.
He believed underwater turbines off our coast should replace them as an alternative form of renewable energy, and could not understand why this has not happened.
“It beggars belief, the decisions that are made in this world.”
Maybe we can ask him to look at cameras as well. Maybe we could say that if 20 or 30 cameras are flashing simultaneously around Britain then the power sunk will make the wind farms conk out
And those nasty polluting power stations will have to kick into operation to keep the cameras flashing so cameras are recking the environment as well as just being useless
Andrew
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