Climate Change - The Multi-Trillion Dollar Scam

The mainstream view There is a currently, I’ve simplified extensively, what may be termed a "mainstream" position on climate change some key elements of which are that : 97% or more scientists believe the Earth has recently been and is continuing to heat up - Global Warming (GW) GW is not the result of natural variations in the earth’s climate but a result of human activity i.e Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) primarily due to burning of fossil fuels - oil, coal resulting in increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere the main culprit being carbon dioxide CO2  given such a huge consensus in the scientific community the existence of AGW is essentially a hard-scientific fact or as put by some “the science (on AGW) is settled”  In addition a further key element of the mainstream AGW position is that: AGW is essentially bad for everyone therefore all nations MUST implement polices to try to reverse it by :  reducing energy consumption  developing alt...

Sunday 6 th feb Thought I would just check in and see if the blog was still working... If you're reading this it must be. Interesting topic this week was "climate-gate" prompted by a television programme on climate sceptics. TV programme was a bit of a disappointment but at least it made me address some of my prejudices to see if a can convince myself that I have an informed position rather than one based on an irrational dislike of the whole carbon trading, "holier than thou" brigade and equally a dislike of the businesses who see increasing levels of pollution simply as a tradeable commodity on a balance sheet. What was crystal clear from the review in   http://www.thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/Climategate-Inquiries.pdf is that the Climate Research Unit CRU has been infected by non-scientific thinking i.e key CRU staff appear to believe they are on a mission to save the earth, or their research grants depending on your level of cy...