Life Is Destroying the Planet! :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

The notion that "self-regulation" could account for the orderliness found in social, economic, or biological systems is a heresy to people-pushers of all doctrinal faiths, including the secular theology of high-church environmentalism. A people-pusher can be thought of as a person with a leash, in search of a dog. Like chameleons, they can undergo superficial changes to accommodate the circumstances in which they find themselves: the persecution of witches or infidels, the fostering of state socialism, or, modernly, the salvation of the planet. It matters not to the zealots of any particular denomination whether their belief system is grounded in substantive truth; only that it provide a plausible rationale for the imposition of authority over the lives of others. The disciples of environmentalism have shifted from being prophets of a coming "ice age," to "global warming," to the compromise position of "climate change" as the empirical basis for their claims continue to be called into question by scientists.

Why we disagree on climate change - Podcasts - The University of Nottingham

In this podcast Professor Mike Hulme tackles a major but overlooked aspect of climate change.

[From the 48:35 mark, a very interesting quote: "If climate change didn't exist, perhaps we actually would have to invent climate change...[this] leads me to say not to ask what you can do for climate change, but actually to think what can the idea of climate change do for us"]