Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Climate change?

'Margaret Thatcher was one of the earliest politicians to make claims that the 'the climate was changing' back in the 80s and this is frequently pointed out by 'warmists'.
They have disingenuously ignored the her later volte face brought to us courtesy of Chris Booker in the Sunday Telegraph:-
'She voiced precisely the fundamental doubts about the warming scare that have since become familiar to us. Pouring scorn on the "doomsters", she questioned the main scientific assumptions used to drive the scare, from the conviction that the chief force shaping world climate is CO2, rather than natural factors such as solar activity, to exaggerated claims about rising sea levels. She mocked Al Gore and the futility of "costly and economically damaging" schemes to reduce CO2 emissions. She cited the 2.5C rise in temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period as having had almost entirely beneficial effects. She pointed out that the dangers of a world getting colder are far worse than those of a CO2-enriched world growing warmer. She recognised how distortions of the science had been used to mask an anti-capitalist, Left-wing political agenda which posed a serious threat to the progress and prosperity of mankind.'

Er ... Yes! Possibly,