Let’s start with an admission.  For a long time the arguments supporting global warming seemed irrefutable.  Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth seemed to popularise what was suspected.  We aren’t doing enough to combat planetary warming and it is going to destroy man’s habitat on Planet Earth.

But over the years a few doubts have started to bubble up.

• Governments find global warming a great excuse to raise taxes (I know, call me a cynic!).
• Most of those taxes have little effect on changing behaviours, surely the point of government policy.
• Demographic changes mean that global population levels will fall drastically, of their own accord.
• Research into global warming is frequently funded by Governments so, perhaps, there is a natural bias in favour of giving Governments what they want to hear (see first point).

So it was interesting to read in a recent Fortune Magazine article about Professor John R. Christy raising some well-argued alternative views.  But, hey, Fortune Magazine would promote an anti-global warming agenda, wouldn’t they!

But a quick Google search came across a fascinating lecture recorded on YouTube with the title, Global Warming – what do the numbers show? It runs for an hour but surely the truth about the state of the planet is worth at least an hour of your time.  Watch it.

By Paul Handover

• Musings