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27 April 2008 |
now believes that “increasing evidence indicates that most of the warming comes of
natural phenomena”. Allegre said, “There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the
"science is settled." He is convinced that global warming is a natural change and
sees the threat of the ‘great dangers’ that it supposedly poses as being bloated and
highly exaggerated. Also recently, the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus
said, when discussing the recent ruling by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), that global warming is man-made, “Global warming is a false myth and
every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N.
panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of
non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral
scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized
scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment.” And
if you are about to ask why no politicians here seem to be saying this, Klaus offered
up an answer, “Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts
because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice”. Nigel Calder, the
former editor of New Scientist, wrote an article in the UK Sunday Times, in which he
stated, “When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming
is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works.” He further
stated that, “Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one
particular hypothesis”. And in reference to how the media is representing those who
dissent from the man-made theory he stated, “they often imagine that anyone who
doubts the hypothesis of man-made global warming must be in the pay of the oil
companies”, which is exactly what I believed up until I did my research. He also
wrote, “Enthusiasm for the global-warming scare also ensures that heatwaves make
headlines, while contrary symptoms, such as this winter’s billion-dollar loss of
Californian crops to unusual frost, are relegated to the business pages”.
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