Cool on global warming

Russell Lewis, former Daily Mail leader writer whose impressive CV includes stints as director of the Conservative Political Centre and general director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, has sent me a copy of the speech he gave to a fringe meeting I attended in Blackpool last week. 

The meeting - entitled 'Let Cooler Heads Prevail' - was organised by the Freedom Association and chaired by TFA chairman Roger Helmer MEP, who spoke at our reception the previous evening. It tackled the thorny issue of climate change and provided a platform for those of us who are sceptical about global warming or, at the very least, the impact of global warming. (See Guardian report HERE.)

I hope that Russell, who is also on the board of Forest,  will be a regular contributor to the new Free Society website when it is launched. In the meantime, here's a snippet from his speech:

"What started me on the sceptical path was the family likeness of this scare to so many other scares, which have turned up in the last few decades. Only forty years ago there was great alarm about the imminence of an ice age, which would kill billions of people. Some of its most prominent publicists, like James Lovelock, have since become equally avid propagandists  for global warming. 

We were also told,  back in the seventies that there would be mass starvation through overpopulation and food shortages. The whole world population was apparently fated to die of cancer due to DDT. The  forests, we were told, were destined to die because of acid rain, at a time when in America they were expanding. At the same time there was the angst about depleting resources. President Carter no less said that we would run out of oil by 1990. All these doomsday forecasts were completely wrong."

See also The Great Global Warming Swindle.

Comments

[Lyn]

I absolutely agree. I am no scientist or historian, but surely everyone knows that during the existence of this planet there have been times of tremendous heat and tremendous cold, it has been cyclical throughout the planets life. I also believe that it is totally arrogant of us to believe that something as insignificant as we are on this planet can possibly be the cause of such changes! It is just another con, like the smoking ban, and will be used to extort more money out of those already stretched to the limits!