[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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[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!

[xcamel]

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[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...

[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

[Entrepreneur]

[ripley]

“climate change hysteria heralds a new ‘age of unreason’...”

correction; “climage change hysteria heralds new opportunities for totalitarian, socialist revolutionaries.”

[higgmeister]

Hear, Hear!

Bump for Nigel Lawson, Lord Lawson of Blaby.

Hip Hip Hurrah!

[driftless2]

"Green is the new red"

That's one phrase I'm going to be using.

[steelyourfaith]

A new Dark Age where superstition dominates reason and science, fer shur.

 

Calculate your one-day Carbon Belch !

[the invisib1e hand]

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

No, really?

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How come so much of this -- both sides -- seems to be emanating from across the Pond?

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[El Gato]

"Indeed, from the IPCC's predictions," he says, "we can calculate that the upshot of this great disaster facing the world might be that our great-grandchildren, instead of being slightly more than 4.8 times as well off as we are, would be only 4.7 times as well off."

So of course to fix that, the GoreBullists want to take, and are taking, measures that will likely result in them being 0.5 times as well off, if that.

Bastids!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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[SunkenCiv]

Ping. Hey, I like that guy’s title... checkt his out... “Lord ‘Civ”... nice ring to it...