Tuesday, October 14, 2008

UK: Climate realists to be represented at Lunar Society debate tonight

Examining both sides of climate change in the city - Birmingham Post
Lord (Nigel) Lawson is a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Energy. In his recent book An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming he concludes that the conventional wisdom on the subject 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 currently being proposed, which he argues is politically unattainable, would be worse than the threat it is supposed to avert.
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Renowned climate change skeptic Julian Morris is Director of the International Policy Network think tank, which published a report for the International Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change.

He is in favour of free market solutions when it comes to the issue of “fixing” global warming.

“Public discussion,” he has said, “of climate change is dominated by individuals and groups who assert that humanity must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in order to avert catastrophe. But such a cure may well be worse than the disease.

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