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The inconvenient truths Mr Gore and his fanatical friends DIDN'T tell you about climate change

By Peter Hitchens
Last updated at 8:37 AM on 29th November 2009

As it happens I was Green before the word came to mean what it does now.

From a very early age, I hated the ploughing up of this country for the motor car, and grieved at the mad closure of the railways, a view that has now become much more widespread than it was then.

I began bicycling to work before bike lanes had been invented, when Boris Johnson was still at Eton.

To this day I get a sort of red mist when I see great trees being cut down by over-cautious councils, and I gaze with limitless regret on the bleak prairies of Southern England, where hedgerows once grew.

If I can take a ship and a train rather than a plane, I will do.


Polar bears are supposedly the victrms of global warming, but the ice in Alaska traditionally melts in August

So it’s no use trying to dismiss me as some kind of petrolhead polluter who wants to cover the planet with runways and motorways, nor to allege I’m in the pay of Big Oil, when I say that I doubt the existence of man-made global warming.

I just doubt it because I am not convinced it’s true. Actually, now that Big Oil has bought into the man-made warming scare itself, I generally get even cruder abuse, being called a ‘denier’ as if I were some kind of Nazi.

And if I mention my doubts at public occasions, I can feel the swelling wrath of the unreasoning mob gathering against me.

There’s seldom time to make more than a few points before you are howled down by righteous zealots.

And that is why I, and anyone seriously interested in this subject, owes a great debt to Christopher Booker, who has set down all the arguments for doubt in a single, concise book that will no doubt be either ignored or abused.

It would be very sad if, as a result, it fails to reach a wide audience. I think anyone remotely concerned about this huge controversy should read this courageous piece of work.

I am not asking you to agree with everything in it, or assuming that you will. I am asking any reasonable person, who is influenced by facts and logic, to consider the case made here.

If you have had doubts but suppressed them for fear of being drowned in anger or contempt, buy this book to arm yourself. If you know any global-warming fanatics, buy it for them for Christmas and ask them, even beg them, to study it carefully.

At the very least, it should allow the debate on this subject to be conducted with more fairness and without such expressions as ‘denier’ being used.

What you will find out is this. That much of what passes for accepted truth is not. Facts have been ruthlessly twisted, suppressed or invented. Scientists are greatly divided on the subject.

Many people – and bodies – presented as experts actually have little or no knowledge of the science involved. Gullible politicians and gullible media men and women have repeatedly fallen for it.

Hucksters, profiteers, world-government fanatics and, of course, the EU (always searching for an excuse to increase its power) have latched on to it.

Huge public subsidies, including the carbon-trading racket and the tragicomic building of hideous, worse-than-useless windfarms, now depend upon it.

But take, just for example, the famous picture of polar bears on a melting ice-floe, supposedly doomed victims of global warming.

The USA’s ex-Vice President, the propagandist Al Gore, got audiences going ‘Aaah!’ by saying the bears had ‘nowhere else to go’. Really? The picture was taken in August, when the Alaskan ice always melts. The polar bears were fine. Think about it.

They can swim and they weren’t far from land. Recent studies show that most polar bear populations are rising.

The world was warmer than it is now in the early Middle Ages, long before industrial activity increased CO2 output, a fact that the warming fanatics have worked very hard to obscure.

Oh, and the most important greenhouse gas by far is not CO2 but water vapour, which is not influenced by human activity at all.

Meanwhile, an English court of law (despite buying the CO2 argument) has identified nine significant errors of fact in Gore’s Oscar-winning alarmist film An Inconvenient Truth, ludicrously being inflicted on children in British schools.

Among these: sea levels are not going to rise by 20ft any time soon; there’s no evidence that atolls in the Pacific have been evacuated because of rising waters; the Gulf Stream is not going to shut down; the drying-up of Lake Chad, the shrinking of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro and Hurricane Katrina were none of them caused by global warming; the only polar bears that have drowned were four that died in a storm.

Booker also reminds us that even if all the measures demanded by the warming zealots were put into action, according to their own calculations this would only delay the effects they fear by six years.

In my experience, people who employ alarmism, and who turn with rage on their critics, do so because they lack confidence in their case. Watch their behaviour at the coming Copenhagen climate conference, a festival of panic and exaggerated woe.

This particular frenzy, if not checked, could end by bankrupting the West and leaving us sitting in the cold and the dark whistling for a wind to power our dead computers – while China and India surge on to growth and prosperity because they have had the sense to ignore the whole stupid thing.

An army of dupes is winning the drugs war

A terrifying new conventional wisdom is growing up – a belief that drugs such as cannabis, heroin and cocaine should be legalised.

Advocates of this nightmare don’t yet use that word – since international treaties prevent it at the moment. They speak of ‘decriminalization’ or ‘regulation’.

You might expect this sort of rubbish among the mumbling, frazzled relics of the Sixties.

The ones who insist, between long vacant pauses, while they struggle to remember who and where they are, and look round the room for enemies, that dope never did them any harm.

But now it has spread to the respectable world of Tory MPs and businessmen’s magazines (the sort smart executives carry about but don’t read), and semi-official reports by members of the Great and the Good who ought to know better.

Some of these people are that worrying combination, simultaneously stupid and clever, trying to prove their brilliance by saying something outrageous.

Some have suffered moral harm by secretly breaking the law themselves. Lacking the courage to confess or regret their misdeeds, and fearing exposure if they now support the law they once transgressed, they fall in with the fashion.

Others continue to take drugs, permit their children to do so and would find life more convenient if the law were relaxed.

All these I regard as contemptible degenerates and/or dupes, though many of them are wicked as well as gullible.

The power I really fear is the one that lurks in the shadows behind these useful idiots.

Someone, somewhere sees the chance of making serious money out of drugging the millions who are now protected by law from such terrible exploitation.

And that someone, by slippery propaganda, is on the brink of success.

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AirborneSapper7


this is at least the 20th anti Gore piece you have posted on what is supposed to be an anti illegal immigration board. In the area this board is supposed to be dealing with Gore has an excellent record.

I think it is wrong for this forum to become a political bulletin board. AS7 is not the only one who does it. There are a few others, coming from different angles and political views.

Originally Posted by Richard

AirborneSapper7


You are the fanatic here this is at least the 20th anti Gore piece you have posted on what is supposed to be an anti illegal immigration board. In the area this board is supposed to be dealing with Gore has an excellent record.

This particular section is for OTHER TOPICS AND NEWS.

Many articles have been posted here that have nothing to do with immigration.

This is OTHER TOPICS AND NEWS.

Other Topics News and Issues
For discussions and news that are not on the topic of illegal immigration and immigration.

The polar bears are drowning and Al Gore is a liar!

It does not take much to ruffle feathers.

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