Lord Lawson claims climate change hysteria heralds a 'new age of unreason'

telegraph ^ | April 6, 2008 | Christopher Booker

[Tolik]

Don't miss the links I found for your background check:

In 2005 Lord Lawson played an influential part in shaping a report on The Economics of Climate Change by the Lords economic affairs committee. It stood out as a measured but often critical appraisal both of the science behind orthodox global warming theory and of the political response to it.

In 2006, in a lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies, Lord Lawson gave a more personal view of one of the overriding political issues of our time, which he has now expanded into a book, An Appeal To Reason: A Cool Look At Global Warming.

 

[Tolik]

Lord Lawson closes on a note that others of us have struck in trying to puzzle out the deeper reasons for this great climate panic. He recognises that in many ways the global warming ideology has filled the vacuum left by the collapse of Marxism: "Green is the new red."

He sees parallels with the apocalyptic visions held out by certain religious movements in the past. He is alarmed by the fanatical intolerance shown by many believers in global warming to any heretic who dares question their certainties.

He ends by describing "the new religion of global warming" as "the Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great story and a best-seller. It contains a grain of truth and a mountain of nonsense."

"We have entered," he says, "a new age of unreason, which threatens to be as economically harmful as it is disquieting. It is from this, above all, that we really do need to save the planet."

• An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming (Duckworth, $19.63)
• Christopher Booker recently published Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming - Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth (Continuum, $19.47)

  
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[Tolik]

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[C210N]

I believe this phenomenon is well documented in Robert Bork’s book, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”. There is no need for reason when your information intake is soundbites in network news and news headlines.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Big Bump.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

He ends by describing "the new religion of global warming" as "the Da Vinci Code of environmentalism.

It is a great story and a best-seller. It contains a grain of truth and a mountain of nonsense."

Nigel, Nigel, Nigel!

[Publius6961]

He ends by describing "the new religion of global warming" as "the Da Vinci Code of environmentalism.
It is a great story and a best-seller. It contains a grain of truth and a mountain of nonsense."

OK. You beat me by about 5 minutes. The money quote from the article.
Lord Lawson's book has now been ordered...

[xcamel]

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[Jakarta ex-pat]

If you read his thoughts on how mass immigration is killing Britain,he might be dubbed,

"The last of the Consevatives."

[piytar]

We interrupt this utter thrashing of AGW pseudo-science for a little real science: www.spaceweather.com Still no current cycle sunspots. Now back to the regularly scheduled comments on the excellent article...

[piytar]

We interrupt this utter thrashing of AGW pseudo-science for a little real science: www.spaceweather.com Still no current cycle sunspots. Now back to the regularly scheduled comments on the excellent article...

[Old Professer]

[Hebrewbrother]

As usual......follow the money.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Enchante]

I've made this point to a number of people and not received any adequate answer (though I suppose the increase in tropical temperatures could continue to push the highs of that range):

One huge gap in the IPCC's thinking, Lord Lawson suggests, is that "it fails almost completely to take account of the capacity of human beings to adapt to changing temperatures - as we can see from comparing Finland with Singapore, two of the world's most successful economies. In the first, people manage to live happily with an average annual temperature of 5C; in the second, they can cope with an average of 27C."

[Ditto]

Bump

[palmer]

Still no current cycle sunspots

True, but SC24 should be well under way by election day. If not, then that could be interesting. Lack of sunspots has nothing to do with climate as amply demonstrated every 11 years or so. But a stretched out cycle and a long term lack of sunspots could get interesting. However, there's not a lot of science yet to explain that cause and effect.

[Entrepreneur]

[Publius6961]

If you read his thoughts on how mass immigration is killing Britain,he might be dubbed, "The last of the Consevatives."

And a modern-day Enoch Powell, iterating what should be obvious to every intelligent, rational human being of any nationality; and almost exactly 40 years later...

Speech in Word Format

[Entrepreneur]

True, but SC24 should be well under way by election day. If not, then that could be interesting. Lack of sunspots has nothing to do with climate as amply demonstrated every 11 years or so. But a stretched out cycle and a long term lack of sunspots could get interesting. However, there's not a lot of science yet to explain that cause and effect.

Here's a brief explanation of the cause and effect... What If It Gets Colder?

However, even if temperatures are plummeting around election time, Hansen and Gavin's data will somehow show 2008 to be one of the ten hottest on record.

Caption: GISS Researchers Have No Trouble Explaining How Their Temperature Measurements Differed Dramatically From RSS, UAH, and even Hadley.