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Climate Alarmism Meltdown: Climate Clown Brown Insults Over Half of Voters
The Prime Minister (Gordon Brown) launched an outspoken attack on climate-change sceptics amid growing signs of public doubts about the scientific and political consensus on the environment.
He said: “With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn’t be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics. We know the science. We know what we must do.”
Greg Clark, the Conservative shadow energy secretary, told the Daily Telegraph the emails were a cause for concern.
“This has clearly concerned a lot of people, including myself. You need to be able to rely on the scientific opinion. It is important that we should be able to have confidence in the research,” he said.
The Government’s latest climate change advert is being investigated by the advertising watchdog after triggering 785 complaints from the public.
It has also been disclosed that the Government’s chief scientist, John Beddington, was forced to defend controversial claims in the television campaign, which features a father reading his daughter a frightening bedtime story about global warming.
Clearcast, the body that vets adverts, questioned the scientific evidence used in the campaign. Part of its role is to ensure controversial topics are kept impartial
Dr Beddington and Robert Watson, the energy department’s main scientific adviser, responded to Clearcast with a furious letter leaked to Channel 4 news, which states: “We are both surprised and disturbed that the premise of the television campaign is being questioned, given the incontrovertible nature of the science that underpins the campaign material.”
Telegraph.co.uk: Gordon Brown: climate-change sceptics are ‘flat-earthers’
Flashback: ‘Global warming is not our fault, say most voters in Times poll’
December 7th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
So, if you buy a car and the windshield wiper is broken, do you discard the whole car as being not functional? Where is the SCIENTIFIC discussion? If the SCIENTIFIC data suggests there is reason for alarm, is sounding the alarm exaggerated? Brown is right…
“Global warming is not our fault” ?? Is just an opinion. Where is the proof?
It’s true that most websites such as this one just throws sand in someones eyes, no foundation whatsoever is given for the statements. Seeding doubt is hardly scientific…
December 7th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
The car has no wheels, no engine, and the driver isn’t CO2. There’s no scientific discussion in calling voters ‘flat-earthers’ (flat earth being consensus science before we knew better). Climate alarmism relies on computer models, not reality. Climate realists don’t have to prove anything – they aren’t the ones asking for money or restrictions – climate alarmists have to provide the proof.