Posted on 08/14/2009 7:44:23 PM PDT by RobinMasters
James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a ‘first-world luxury’ with no basis in scientific fact. Shame on the publishers who rejected the book
Imagine how wonderful the world would be if man-made global warming were just a figment of Al Gore’s imagination. No more ugly wind farms to darken our sunlit uplands. No more whopping electricity bills, artificially inflated by EU-imposed carbon taxes. No longer any need to treat each warm, sunny day as though it were some terrible harbinger of ecological doom. And definitely no need for the $7.4 trillion cap and trade (carbon-trading) bill — the largest tax in American history — which President Obama and his cohorts are so assiduously trying to impose on the US economy.
Imagine no more, for your fairy godmother is here. His name is Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at Adelaide University, and he has recently published the landmark book Heaven And Earth, which is going to change forever the way we think about climate change.
‘The hypothesis that human activity can create global warming is extraordinary because it is contrary to validated knowledge from solar physics, astronomy, history, archaeology and geology,’ says Plimer, and while his thesis is not new, you’re unlikely to have heard it expressed with quite such vigour, certitude or wide-ranging scientific authority. Where fellow sceptics like Bjorn Lomborg or Lord Lawson of Blaby are prepared cautiously to endorse the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) more modest predictions, Plimer will cede no ground whatsoever. Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, he argues, is the biggest, most dangerous and ruinously expensive con trick in history.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
I do wish (figuratively) to see Gore hauled up on the beach, gasping for air like a great, slimey catfish. Caught, once and for all.
Excellent post. What else should you expect from Lord Lawson of Blaby (a small village in Leicestershire).
'Bout time someone came out and just flat out said the truth...
This is fun to watch this hoax collapse. No one believes this any more (I did for a short time because I’m not very smart). I was at a lunch with several men Wednesday and one said “Global Warming” in a conversation. The Table erupted with loud laughter and knee slapping guffaws.
Leave it to the Aussies to cut through the crap and expose AGW for what it is.
I do love the Aussie, and British, command of the language. Something we Americans have lost I'm afraid.
Warm bump for later!
It's also been debunked recently by Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites and Virgin Space Flight fame.
An engineer can easily see the flawed logic...^)
His slide show that was given last month at the Oshkosh Air Show is well worth a read. It's well presented and goes directly to the facts, or rather the lack of facts.
http://www.slideshare.net/QuestSystems/agw-analysisrutanv5-read-only
Be sure to read the notes that go with each slide.
It's also been debunked recently by Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites and Virgin Space Flight fame.
An engineer can easily see the flawed logic...^)
His slide show that was given last month at the Oshkosh Air Show is well worth a read. It's well presented and goes directly to the facts, or rather the lack of facts.
http://www.slideshare.net/QuestSystems/agw-analysisrutanv5-read-only
Be sure to read the notes that go with each slide.
Al Gore and Bernie Madoff are two of a kind.
You owe Bernie Madeoff an apology.
Pray for America
Ping
So Burt Rutan is on the side of the angels on this? He’s such a serious cutting edge designer...hope the word gets out before the government destroys more of our REAL environment: Freedom.
bttt
Remember the huge hysteria about AIDS? That was liberal madness too. You never hear much about AIDS anymore. Gay and druggies get it. It is very hard for heterosexual people to get it in America
Global warming is just more lib scaremongering. Libs are awful with science
Alas, the Aussie replies to the article were not heartening. Looks like even more of them are greenies than here.
As FReepers say: “We’re doomed.”
And to think the liberals whined about Abu Ghraib when they've been torturing data all along!
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