Mark Steel: Global warming must be a lie. Just look who says so

[Briar]

Mark Steel: Global warming must be a lie. Just look who says so

Those spiders should be ashamed of the effect they're having on the islands of Kiribati


The Live Earth concert was worthwhile, because it provoked this splendid argument from a columnist in The Sun, who insists the climate isn't changing - "Global warming is simply the new way of screwing more and more taxes out of us."

So it turns out all those scientists and weather people and botanists and people measuring glaciers have made it all up so the Government can propose a twelve quid long-haul airline tax. There's probably a secret group in Greenland hacking icebergs to bits with a shovel to make it look more convincing.

Next week he'll add: "And what about these so-called 'sound waves'? Have you ever seen one? Of course not, because they're simply another scam dreamed up by the BBC so they can charge us a license fee."

This is the level of debate offered by those who dispute global warming is happening. Either that, or they repeat some snippet they've seen on a website, like: "What about the Montana Institute of Snow, eh? They analysed nine different snowflakes in the Andes and concluded flakes are bigger now than in the olden days, so although there are less flakes, there's 80-per-cent more snow in total than ever before, and the man who does the graphs to say there's global warming is being paid by a cycle shop in Taunton."

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http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/mark_steel/article2753362.ece

[lligrd]

1. As I Told My Brother When He Made An Attempt To Smear Gore

"If he and the scientists are wrong and you support them you have little to lose but a few creature comforts and some investment in new energy forms instead of oil but if they are right and you ignore them, you've wasted the chance to let your children and grandchildren enjoy what you have. Are you willing to take that ber?"

He said, "no."

[TheBaldyMan]

2. Mark Steel is brilliant. Always sharp and tight to the point.

k&r

[VWolf]

4. Yep - I love satire in the British tradition nt

[rodeodance]

3. The RW is like the WH----they make declarative startments and expect

all will listen (cause of course they believe their statements to be true).