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A global storm in a teacup…or is it saucer?
It was interesting to read UK premier Gordon Brown back claims that ‘climate change deniers’ were akin to some kind of ‘flat earth society’. Quite a bold statement you might think, considering the lack of evidence of the former versus the vast evidence of the latter. Still politics is 85% show-business, and if they can’t be useful the least they can do is raise a laugh. It also shows that the ‘climate change denier’ camp is growing, and now has enough clout to provoke a response out of a leading premier. Surprising? I don’t think so, as I stated in my article on global warming last year, this is the just the beginning of the debate.
I know politics is a slanging match, one ‘attacking’ the other and the other ‘condemning’ the other back. Tough words, and not much of any benefit coming out of it, but for all it’s nonsense, Politics is a wonderful indicator of public perception; if people are talking about it, politicians are reacting to it, and you’ve got something there.
Gordon Brown has condemned (pretty strong word?) those who don’t believe in man made climate change (mmcc). That’s a pretty serious push-against for a man who believes the IPPC’s claim that it is 99% likely that climate change is man made. I’m not so sure, you see. Anyone who really truly knows something, isn’t the slightest bit concerned about people who disagree with him. They know what they know and they couldn’t care less what anyone else thinks; they just get on with it.
If they don’t know; if they’re unsure; if they’re backing the biggest group hoping to win, then they typically need everyone else to rally round and agree with them to make them feel more secure about the decision that they’ve backed, as we see here with hapless Gordon.
Even though he is probably acting off the advice of an advisor, looking to be seen to be doing something that supports the Copenhagen summit on climate change taking place this week, Gordon Brown really doesn’t know the facts, but is guessing like almost everyone else. If people are able to ‘cast doubt on the evidence for global warming’ then in my opinion that case is pretty weak, and no amount of protectionism is going to help it survive. A case stands by its own merit, not by people saying ‘You can’t say that, that’s different to what our case says’
No bother, because it will all come out in the wash, and people will see that it was just another storm in a teacup like all other fear based theories that came and went. It will take money from one place, and attribute it to another, the industries of the West will pay for it and some people will get very rich out of it. More jobs will be created in the green economy, and people will care a little more about the planet. Some may even panic that the end is nigh as they try in vain to achieve target savings predicted necessary by a computer based on speculation about the weather that were initially based on a flawed premise. Ultimately no harm will come of any of it.
Human beings should perhaps be re-labelled human doings. They often rush to act, usually out of fear, rather than seeking a stable footing from which to push off into action. Any such fear based movement, on a global scale, gathers fierce and fashionable momentum, and must be allowed to run its course. I suspect one very good thing which will come out of the mmcc fiasco is man’s acceptance of what he is told, over what he feels is right. We will likely see a resurgence of people guiding themselves from within, rather than lazily taking today’s agenda from the free paper that was handed to them this morning on my way to work.
The truth is not out there, the truth is in here.
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