Heads we're right, tails you're wrong

I just love the way our climate change carbon zealots want to encourage open, informed debate on the subject.

If you don't agree with them then you are not only ignorant and reckless, according to Lord Stern, but it is akin to denying the link between smoking and lung cancer and HIV and AIDS.

No doubt much the same sentiments were expressed against the reckless heretics who claimed the universe did not revolve around the earth - I mean how stupid could the likes of Galileo really have been, them and their mad idea of a solar system.

It must be remembered of course that Lord Stern is trying to flog his new book on climate change so needs a bit of publicity to keep it out of the remaindered bins for a while but it is still a common mantra among the greenhouse gas gauleiters that any disagreement with the CO2 gospel is blasphemy.

Whether global warming is a short or long term event, whether it is part of a regular, natural cycle or not, no one really knows nor does anyone know if carbon dioxide is a major factor in climate change or just a side show.

Latest estimates put the earth at 4.5 billion years old and some of the data being used by the carbon dioxide mafia doesn't even go back 50 years with models based on assumptions, theories and guesses.

Coping with global warming is a challenge we need to face, treating the earth with a bit more respect a necessity but slagging off anyone who dares question the global warming gestapo's assumptions - and they are no more than that - hardly does anything to progress the debate.