Climate Change update

These updates are almost a daily occurrence at the moment as the news keeps coming in and it's not all to the benefit of the "warmists". Two Telegraph items have caught my eye; the first is a news piece that reports that despite the wall to wall pro-"warmist" propaganda spewed out by the BBC and most of the rest of the British media, "Only one in two voters accepts man-made climate change, according to new poll". It seems that the British public is more sensible and sceptical than the political class and media would like. The Telegraph's article uses some loaded language (my emphasis) as it reports

"Asked if they backed the main conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that humans are largely responsible for modern day rises in temperatures, 52 per cent of voters agreed.

However, 39 per cent said climate change had not yet been proven to be man made, while seven per cent simply denied the phenomenon was happening at all. Furthermore, fewer than one in four voters (23 per cent) believed that climate change was "the most serious problem faced by man" – a view endorsed by governments across the world.

A clear majority (58 per cent) said it was merely "one of a number of serious problems" while 17 per cent believed it has been exaggerated and is "not a very serious problem." "

With these sort of numbers will the British media respond by seriously analysing the climate change data to see if the British public might be right to be sceptical or redouble their efforts to persuade us of the "warmist" agenda and the desperate need for green taxation, redistribution of wealth and a "new world order".


One beacon for sanity on Climate Change has been Christopher Booker's column in the Telegraph and his latest one is no exception. He neatly summarises much of the current debate on Climate Change data including the "hockey stick" expose, the Yamal peninsula tree rings fiddle, the analysis of "Lucy Skywalker" that showed that "in the past 50 years temperatures have not risen at all" in that part of Siberia and why the Copenhagen conference may produce "the most costly economic suicide note in history".