Martin Cohen Explains What Drives People to Believe In The Climate Change Scare
DO you believe in climate change? Do you seek to covert non-believers by tales of hell and abused children? Martin Cohen, editor of The Philosopher, explains:
Alas, in the climate-change debate, there is a worrying amount of irrationality, incomplete science and skewed presentation. The scientists apparently “cherry-picking” and hiding their data revealed recently in the University of East Anglia email scandal are only following in a long tradition that includes even Galileo “cheating” by saying that the Earth must orbit round the Sun – in a perfect circle. Yet, surely most objectionable of all is the use of gullibility and fear as tactics in campaigns. And if fear requires a world of zero risk, that certainly won’t include those mercury-filled light bulbs and nuclear power stations.
Today, global-warming “deniers” have all been told they must fall into line with “the science”. But this is not science, this is propaganda. And we are not being asked to be more rational but to suspend our own judgment completely. That, not “runaway climate change”, is the most dangerous threat to the world today.
Are you scared yet?
Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
