Bravo, David Bellamy

Bellamy: Flying not to blame for global warming - Travel Trade Gazette

Controversial environmental campaigner and botanist David Bellamy has claimed the world is getting colder and aviation should not be blamed for climate change.

An outspoken critic of claims that global warming is man-made, he was talking during Haven Holidays’ Big Green Weekend event last week, designed to promote eco-friendly domestic tourism.

“In the next 24 hours the amount of deforestation will pour the same amount of CO2 into the atmosphere as eight million people flying from Britain to America. So stop the logging and we can stop the problem,” he said.

“There is more proof that global warming is natural climate change and we have to adapt to it. In the past 17 years the temperature has actually gone down.”

Bellamy, who has faced widespread criticism for his unorthodox views, also said there is now more sea ice at the poles than ever before and that, despite concerns about climate change driving polar bears to extinction, their numbers had trebled.