ClimateGate: “‘climate comrades’ keeping the ‘gravy train’ going.”
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Climate
Change
‘Fraud’
By John Ingham
December 2nd, 2009
DAILYEXPRESS.CO.UK
Daily Express |Climate change ‘fraud’
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THE scientific consensus
that mankind has caused
climate change was rocked
yesterday as a leading
academic called it a
“load of hot air
underpinned by fraud”
Professor Ian Plimer condemned
the climate change lobby
as “climate comrades” keeping
the “gravy train” going.
In a controversial talk just days
before the start of a
climate summit attended by world
leaders in Copenhagen,
Prof Plimer said Governments
were treating the public like
“fools” and using climate change
to increase taxes.
He said carbon dioxide has
had no impact on temperature
and that recent warming
was part of the natural
cycle of climate stretching
over billions of years.
Prof Plimer –
author of Heaven and Earth:
told a London audience:
“Climates always change.
They always have and
they always will.
They are driven by a
number of factors that are
random and cyclical.”
His comments came days after
a scandal in climate-change
research emerged through the
leak of emails from the
world-leading research unit at
the University of East Anglia.
They appeared to show that
scientists had been massaging data
to prove that global warming
was taking place.
The Climate Research Unit
also admitted getting rid of
much of its raw climate data,
which means other scientists
cannot check the subsequent
research.
Last night the head of the CRU,
Professor Phil Jones, said he
would stand down while an
independent review took place.
Professor Plimer said climate
change was caused by natural
events such as volcanic eruptions,
the shifting of the Earth’s
orbit and cosmic radiation.
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He said:
“Carbon dioxide levels
have been up to 1,000 times
higher in the past.
CO2 cannot be driving
global warming now.
“In the past we have had
rapid and significant
climate change with
temperature changes greater
than anything we are
measuring today.
They are driven by
processes that have been
going on since the beginning
of time.”
He cited periods of warming
during the Roman Empire
and in the Middle Ages –
when Vikings grew crops
on Greenland –
and cooler phases such as
the Dark Ages and the
Little Ice Age from
1300 to 1850.
And he predicted that the next
phase would cool the planet.
Climate change is widely blamed
on the burning of fossil fuels
which release greenhouse gases
such as CO2 into the atmosphere,
where they trap the sun’s heat.
The talks at Copenhagen
are expected to find ways
to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions globally.
But Professor Plimer,
of Adelaide and Melbourne
Universities,
said that to stop climate change
Governments should find ways
to prevent changes to the Earth’s
orbit and ocean currents and
avoid explosions of supernovae
in space.
Of the saga of the leaked emails,
he said:
“If you have to argue
your science by using fraud,
your science is not valid.”
The CRU’s Professor Jones has
admitted some of the emails may
have had “poorly chosen words”
and were sent in the
“heat of the moment”.
But he has categorically denied
manipulating data and said
he stood by the science.
And yesterday he dismissed
suggestions of a conspiracy to
alter evidence to support a
theory of man-made
global warming as
“complete rubbish”.
But mining geology professor
Plimer said there was a huge
momentum behind the
climate-change lobby.
He suggested many scientists
had a vested interest in
promoting climate change
because it helped secure
more funding for research.
He said:
“The climate comrades
are trying to keep
the gravy train going.
Governments are also
keen on putting their
hands as deep as possible
into our pockets.”
“The average person has
been talked down to.”
“He has been
treated like a fool”.
“Yet the average person
has common sense.”
But Vicky Pope,
head of Met Office Climate
Change Advice, said:
“We are seeing changes in
climate on a timescale we have
not seen before.
“There clearly are
natural variations.
But the only way we can
explain these trends is
when we include both
man-made and natural
changes to the climate.”
“We have also seen declines
in summer sea ice over
the past 30 years,
glaciers retreating for
150 years,
changing rainfall patterns
and increases in subsurface
and surface ocean temperatures.”
And as the war of words between
the rival camps intensified,
leading economist Lord Stern
dismissed the sceptics as
“muddled”.
Lord Stern,
who produced a detailed report
on the issue for the Government,
said evidence of climate
change was “overwhelming”.
He accepted that all views
should be heard but said
the degree of scepticism among
“real scientists” was very small.
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