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Fritz Vahrenholt & James Lovelock

Two Green Heretics Come Out



For many years, I was an active supporter of the IPCC and its CO2 theory. Recent experience with the UN's climate panel, however, forced me to reassess my position. In February 2010, I was invited as a reviewer for the IPCC report on renewable energy. I realised that the drafting of the report was done in anything but a scientific manner. The report was littered with errors and a member of Greenpeace edited the final version. These developments shocked me. I thought, if such things can happen in this report, then they might happen in other IPCC reports too. --Fritz Vahrenholt, The Daily Telegraph, 18 June 2012
He was once a guru to environmentalists, claiming climate change would kill billions of humans by the end of this century. But it seems James Lovelock has had a change of heart. On the eve of a major environmental summit, he has attacked the modern green movement – declaring its theories 'meaningless drivel'. The 92-year-old described the modern green movement as a 'religion', which used guilt to gain support. Speaking about climate change, he said: 'I'm not worried about sea-level rises.' He added: 'At worst, I think it will be 2ft a century.' --Marion Ledwith, Daily Mail, 19 June 2012 Having already upset many environmentalists – for whom he is something of a guru – with his long-time support for nuclear power and his hatred of wind power, James Lovelock is now coming out in favour of "fracking", the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from the ground. He argues that, while not perfect, it produces far less CO2 than burning coal: "Gas is almost a give-away in the US at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it." --Leo Hickman, The Guardian, 15 June 2012

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Climate scientists are likely to face charges of putting politics before science, following two controversial decisions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month. Controversially, it voted to increase the role in those assessments of "grey literature": publications not subject to peer review. Grey literature was responsible for several embarrassing errors in the 2007 report. After the scandals, some called for grey literature to be banished from IPCC assessments. Instead, the meeting embraced it, and set criteria for its use.--Fred Pearce, New Scientists, 18 June 2012 Perhaps we shouldn't listen to scientists about climate change. For it would appear that some scientists are remarkably ignorant about what is going on. And this rather worries me: the idea that people who quite literally do not know what they are talking about making government policy is scary. --Tom Worstall, Forbes, 17 June 2012 In terms of global temperature 2012 is turning out to be a very interesting year. Monitoring this year’s temperature is however less thorough than for many years as the newly established Hadcrut4 database is still not updated beyond the end of 2010, and the dataset it’s replacing, HadCrut3, though still being updated, has not had a new entry since March 2012. This is a rather poor performance on behalf of the UK Met Office. I think it is unlikely that 2012 will be a record year, but whether it will break into the top ten warmest years on record no one can say, though even that is looking doubtful. From the data we have, and from experience, it seems as though the global temperature standstill seen for the past 15 years will continue in 2012. --David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 18 June 2012 British households are unknowingly giving millions of pounds to fund climate change campaigners through the European Union, according to the Taxpayers’ Alliance. A new report found Europe has given £75 million to green lobbying groups, including Friends of the Earth and Climate Action Network. --Rowena Mason, The Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2012


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