Dreaming of a warm Christmas

I see Sir Nicolas Stern is still coining it in from global warming with his latest report telling us how we should be cutting carbon emissions by a zillion per cent or we will all die or whatever.

You could almost forget he is an economist and believe he was some sort of expert on climate - not to worry though; the media are lapping it all up without question.

Personally I would have thought that an influential bunch of climate zealots at Essex Uni who appear to have been fiddling the figures to make their case for climate change, and the case of the UN, were more worthy of investigation and space than an economist mate of Gordon Brown's making out the case for higher taxes and a more refined carbon trading scheme to make some people a lot of money - but what do I know.

The tide does seem to be starting to turn though as the dodgy science and flawed predictions that the world will end in floods and storms if we don't stop eating meat and driving cars all start to go belly up.

The sensible scientists who would prefer to see proper, structured research into climate change, which many believe is a natural phenomena and nothing to do with man, are finally starting to make themselves heard over the screeching eco-zealots.

Up to now anyone who did not agree with every half baked word of pseudo-science issued by the climate change storm troopers was ridiculed, called a liar and accused of being a 'denier' - one eminent professor of climatology who doubted the scientific basis of many claims was actually accused of being the same as those who denied the holocaust.

Get greenhouse gasses, CO2, climate change and catastrophe in one sentence and you are a prophet, question them and you are the anti-Christ. Remember we are still showing a film in our schools warning of man's effects on climate change as absolute fact when it has been discredited and contains major errors and misleading information.

And those who quote the UN report on climate change by 2,500 eminent scientists never mention that only 50 of the scientists were actually qualified to speak on the subject while the views of the rest carried about the same weight as the local butcher or baker. The minority report questioning many of the findings had more qualified scientists on its books.

I sense though that the tide might be turning and it is finally dawning on people that there are two sides to the argument, the view of the climate fundamentalists who adjust the figures as they go along to suit their message and those who would rather find out what is really going on whether we can do anything about it.