Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/12/2009 9:53:03 PM PST by neverdem
WORLD-RENOWNED botanist and broadcaster Prof David Bellamy has predicted the world will get cooler over the next 30 years rather than warmer, as many climate scientists have predicted.
He said a period of global cooling had already begun, citing evidence that the Alps had more snow last winter than at any time for the last 26 years.
Prof Bellamy has been one of the best-known sceptics of man-made global warming, despite being an environmentalist. Yesterday, as patron of the Tree Appeal, he helped children at Cabinteely Community School to plant trees. The initiative aims to plant 100,000 trees in the UK and Ireland to encourage biodiversity and to act as a learning resource.
Prof Bellamy said temperature fluctuations are part of the natural process. “The argument [for man-made global warming] is going downhill. Climate change is a completely natural thing. It is based on the sun, and at the moment we are into the 24th sun cycle and there has been no sunspots for two years. The last time that happened, the Thames froze over.”
Prof Bellamy said the climate conference at Copenhagen will fail, and that many countries were already trying to pull out of it.
He has been criticised repeatedly by the scientific community for his views. Prof William Reville, who writes in this newspaper, said changes in the sun had affected global temperatures in the past, but the correlation between the sun and climate ended in the 1970s while global warming continued.
© 2009 The Irish Times
Al Gore: “Well that’s what I MEANT! Honestly, you conservatives. When I said the body has a fever, what does that mean? It means you’ve got a COLD!”
Sorry, scientists have spent all their credibility with me. They don’t have a clue what’s going on as far as I can see.
The Goracle was on Conan tonight. And I turned it off.
Yep the scientificness of science seems very much in doubt after this and several other “green” fiascos. This social scientist will never again think the so called “hard” sciences have anything on us.
Well I think we economist know certain things just as biologists, chemists etc know certain things. Each science would probably be better off if it stuck to teaching what it knows and investigating what it does not know. To often the what it knows is not the focus of the classroom or other communication with the public. Global warming is just one such example.
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If I said the world was getting colder would you hold it against me?
btt
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