Friday 7 November 2008

Whatever happened to David Bellamy?

... ah, the BBC declared him persona non grata about ten years ago for being a bit sceptical about MMGW.

Via Christina Speight.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Global Warming conveniently started soon after the Cold War ended. There's nothing quite as useful to a government as an external threat.

sanbikinoraion said...

I remember seeing Bellamy on C4 news with George Monbiot. Bellamy insisted that most glaciers worldwide were getting larger, and Monbiot bless him had brought a letter with the data from 250 glacier study teams saying "no, really, they're not". Bellamy had no response and was basically laughed out of the studio.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Oh, bandwagon jumper and moron journalist Moonbat had a letter did he?

As opposed to proper Greenie, nature lover and scientist Bellamy who stated in the article to which I linked that "we’ve seen evidence that the glaciers in Alaska have started growing rapidly – and they’ve not grown for a long time" which is a bold statement of fact and either true or untrue*.

In any event, it appears that Antarctic Ice is increasing in volume as Arctic Ice is getting thinner. And that link is from a Greenie website.

*Which begs the question, which glaciers? All? Some?

Pogo said...

ISTR reading somewhere that there are tens of thousands of glaciers world-wide of which only a tiny fraction are observed in any meaningful way. On that basis it's probably reasonable to say that we haven't the faintest clue whether there is a net build-up or reduction of "the world's glaciers".

But since when are proper, observed and measured facts allowed to sway the preachings of the Great Church of AGW?

Anonymous said...

So that's where he went! I like him. Whether he's right or not, he always seemed likeable and I can imagine that is the sort of opinion that'll get you out on your ear.

Anonymous said...

Nice to hear someone finally stating the obvious truth that investing in conserving habitats under immediate threat, such as rainforests, should take precedence over worrying about a potential environmental shift that will likely take centuries to manifest (or not at all according to the sceptics).