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Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites...
Vancouver Sun ^ | July 29th, 2009

Posted on 07/29/2009 9:52:32 AM PDT by TaraP

Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.

Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.

Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.

It is, of course, not new to have a highly qualified scientist saying that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon with many precedents in history. Many have made the argument, too, that it is rubbish to contend human behaviour is causing the current climate change. And it has often been well argued that it is totally ridiculous to suppose that changes in human behaviour -- cleaning up our act through expensive slight-of-hand taxation tricks -- can reverse the trend.

But most of these scientific and academic voices have fallen silent in the face of environmental Jacobinism. Purging humankind of its supposed sins of environmental degradation has become a religion with a fanatical and often intolerant priesthood, especially among the First World urban elites.

But Plimer shows no sign of giving way to this orthodoxy and has just published the latest of his six books and 60 academic papers on the subject of global warming. This book, Heaven and Earth -- Global Warming: The Missing Science, draws together much of his previous work. It springs especially from A Short History of Plant Earth, which was based on a decade of radio broadcasts in Australia.

That book, published in 2001, was a best-seller and won several prizes. But Plimer found it hard to find anyone willing to publish this latest book, so intimidating has the environmental lobby become.

But he did eventually find a small publishing house willing to take the gamble and the book has already sold about 30,000 copies in Australia. It seems also to be doing well in Britain and the United States in the first days of publication.

Plimer presents the proposition that anthropogenic global warming is little more than a con trick on the public perpetrated by fundamentalist environmentalists and callously adopted by politicians and government officials who love nothing more than an issue that causes public anxiety.

While environmentalists for the most part draw their conclusions based on climate information gathered in the last few hundred years, geologists, Plimer says, have a time frame stretching back many thousands of millions of years.

The dynamic and changing character of the Earth's climate has always been known by geologists. These changes are cyclical and random, he says. They are not caused or significantly affected by human behaviour.

Polar ice, for example, has been present on the Earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time, Plimer writes. Plus, animal extinctions are an entirely normal part of the Earth's evolution.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; environmentalism; globalwarming; motherearth

1 posted on 07/29/2009 9:52:32 AM PDT by TaraP
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2 posted on 07/29/2009 9:55:27 AM PDT by FromLori (FromLori)
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Who could have guessed that Obama would be so cool that he has already singlehandedly brought about the end of global warming? Another few years of record lows and....


3 posted on 07/29/2009 9:57:36 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: TaraP

Create a crisis (preferably one with apocalyptic projections) ... offer a solution ... gain power, fame and wealth.


4 posted on 07/29/2009 10:00:31 AM PDT by Walrus (My congressman is toast in 2010 --- how about yours?)
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As Rush says, “follow the money”,


5 posted on 07/29/2009 10:01:09 AM PDT by nyconse (When you buy something, make an investment in your country. Buy American or bye bye America)
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