G Wright, Tadcaster.
I HAVE read your columnist Sir Bernard Ingham’s columns on the subject of
global warning and was pleased that someone with a public forum was able to
articulate views close to my own.
I have a scientific, technological and engineering background at very
senior level and have worked with and employed sufficient so-called experts to
know that one shouldn’t accept, as gospel, certainties promulgated as fact, no
matter how erudite the source.
The BBC, which claims to be the broadcaster with the most integrity in
the world, has much to answer for in the propaganda relating to global warming.
Some months ago, there was a programme in which the BBC intended to convince
spectics of the fact that CO2 caused global warming.
Fifteen people, said to be spectics, were brought into the studio where
an experiment was set up to convince the doubters.
The experiment consisted of two large plastic containers, with
thermometers, on which bright lights were shone.
The “scientist” then introduced an acid and a carbonate to produce CO2 in
one container and – lo and behold – there was a greater rise in temperature in
that with the CO2.
As any 15-year-old in my grammar school would have been aware, this would
not have been surprising as the chemical reaction was
exothermic.
Perhaps the “Mickey Mouse” science of the BBC is indicative
of the
decline in standards of basic science of the general population of the UK and,
in particular the lack of any scientific background in politicians and
polemicists.
