Thursday 12 March 2009

Scientific Facts Or Fiction?

Returning to the subject of climate change and the 'voices of doom' predicting devastation through floods, highlighted by the absolutely ridiculous article passing for journalism in the Telegraph today, it was pleasing to see this article by Roger Helmer on ConHome.

Helmer was attending the Heartland Institute's conference on climate change (his speech can be read here) and another notable attendee was Vaclav Klaus, Czech President, who also had more words of wisdom.

Making the point that this whole debate seems to be an alarmist scare driven by media frenzy, similar to that of CJD, it is also noticeable that this conference appears to have received little coverage in our press. It is a great pity that to quote Helmer, the press cannot "forget the hype and the propaganda and look at the science and the facts."

I commend both the article in ConHome and Helmer's speech worthy of reading.

2 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

That conference did get coverage - in The Grauniad. "Positive" is not a word I'd use to describe it.

Witterings from Witney said...

Exactly. Little = Grauniad!