Amazongate: why it matters – Telegraph Blogs

When it comes to money, power and influence, the pushers of AGW alarmism definitely have the advantage. They control most of the MSM, the major scientific research establishments, institutions like the Royal Society and the National Academy for Sciences, the government, the well-funded propagandists like the WWF and Greenpeace, the big carbon traders like Al Gore and George Soros, the EU, the UN, the schools, the universities.

When it comes to a straightforward battle between truth and lies, though, the alarmists are always going to lose because they don’t have the facts on their side. And this is what is so important about the Amazongate saga.

Governments still promote climate fears despite contradictory advice from thousands of experts

According to climate activists, only a handful of unqualified naysayers dispute the CO2/dangerous global warming hypothesis. “On one hand, you have the entire scientific community and on the other you have a handful of people, half of them crackpots”, said Lord Robert May, former president of the Royal Society.

But Lord May is completely mistaken. Not only is there no known broad agreement in the “entire scientific community” about the causes of climate change (and it only matters what climate experts think, not all scientists), but literally thousands of scientifically qualified individuals have endorsed open letters and other declarations opposing, either directly or indirectly, the CO2/dangerous global warming hypothesis.

Here are 14 of them (all linked to the documents and endorser lists)...

CentreRight: What will the climate change policy backlash look like?

I don't think there is any longer a question of whether there will be a backlash against the high energy prices that climate change policy is instituting. The question is instead whether that backlash will - as it is likely to in the States thanks to people like Chris Horner - hit the right target.