26 Nov 2009
Warming crusader George Monbiot complains about the new deniers:
"I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the
environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the
Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are
a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition. It is
true that climate change deniers have made wild claims which the material
can't possibly support (the end of global warming, the death of climate
science). But it is also true that the emails are very damaging. "
"The response of the greens and most of the scientists I know is profoundly
ironic, as we spend so much of our time confronting other people's denial.
Pretending that this isn't a real crisis isn't going to make it go away."
Warmest Regards
B0n oz
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville