The argument for and against Global Warning continues. Many, otherwise very intelligent persons, persist in believing that this subject, used extensively by Governments to frighten the population, is a foregone conclusion.

As Mr Blair’s guru, Lord Giddens laid down in this context in a speech in 2006, “In order to manage risk, you must scare people”.

"In the 1960s we were told that the population explosion would lead to mass global starvation. In the 1970s, the planet was running out of natural resources and world economic growth would grind to a halt within our lifetimes. When the planet's temperature, which had been gently rising for some 400 years, appeared to be falling again, we were entering a new ice age. In recent years, it has been sensational warnings that global warming, later modified to "climate change," will have disastrous consequences in the very near future unless we make drastic sacrifices and accept the necessity of higher all-round costs and taxes, and surrender to greater control over all aspects of our lives, now.

In this hard-hitting response to the scaremongering, Nigel Lawson, the UK's former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Energy, examines all aspects of the global warming issue: the science, the economics, the politics, and the ethics. He concludes that, contrary to the deeply-flawed Stern Review, the conventional wisdom is suspect on a number of grounds; that global warming is not the devastating threat to the planet it is widely alleged to be; and that the remedy that is currently being proposed, which is in any event politically unattainable, would be worse that the threat it is supposed to avert. Argued with logic, common sense, an element of wit, and thoroughly sourced and referenced.

To quote Lawson:

"So the new religion of global warming, however appealing it may be to the politicians, is not as harmless as it may appear at first sight. Indeed the more one examines it the more it resembles a 'Da Vinci Code' of environmentalism. It is a great story and phenomenal best-seller. It contains a grain of truth – and a mountain of nonsense. And that nonsense could be very damaging indeed. We appear to have entered a new age of unreason which threatens to be as economically harmful as it is profoundly disquieting. It is from this, above all, that we really do need to save the planet."

From a review of the book "An Appeal to Reason" by Nigel Lawson.

From the website, http://www.jamesphogan.com/heretics/book.php?titleID=268

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