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BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE
SHUNNED: Naturalist David Bellamy
Wednesday November 5,2008
FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.
A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.
Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.
His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.
Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing the orthodox line on climate change.
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| CLANGER: Bellamy says Al Gore has 'no proof' that millions will die due to global warming |
"When I first stuck my head above the parapet to say I didn’t believe what we were being told about global warming I had no idea what the consequences would be.
I am a scientist and I have to follow the directions of science but when I see that the truth is being covered up I have to voice my opinions.
According to official data, in every year since 1998 world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that?
The sad fact is that since I said I didn’t believe human beings caused global warming I’ve not been allowed to make a TV programme.
My absence has been noticed, because wherever I go I meet people who say: “I grew up with you on the television, where are you now?”
It was in 1996 that I criticised wind farms while appearing on Blue Peter and I also had an article published in which I described global warming as poppycock.
The truth is, I didn’t think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line and I wasn’t doing that.
At that point I was still making loads of television programmes and I was enjoying it greatly. Then I suddenly found I was sending in ideas for TV shows and they weren’t getting taken up. I’ve asked around about why I’ve been ignored but I found that people didn’t get back to me.
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| CAMPAIGNER: Bellamy says we must stop destroying tropical rainforests |
At the beginning of this year there was a BBC show with four experts saying: “This is going to be the end of all the ice in the Arctic,” and hypothesising that it was going to be the hottest summer ever. Was it hell! It was very cold and very wet and now we’ve seen evidence that the glaciers in Alaska have started growing rapidly – and they’ve not grown for a long time.
I’ve seen evidence, which I believe, that says there has not been a rise in global temperature since 1998, despite the increase in carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere. This makes me think the global warmers are telling lies – carbon dioxide is not the driver.
The idiot fringe have accused me of being like a Holocaust denier, which is ludicrous. Climate change is all about cycles, it’s a natural thing and has always happened. When the Romans lived in Britain they were growing very good red grapes and making wine on the borders of Scotland. It was evidently a lot warmer.
If you were sitting next to me 10,000 years ago we’d be under ice. So thank God for global warming for ending that ice age; we wouldn’t be here otherwise.
People such as former American Vice-President Al Gore say that millions of us will die because of global warming – which I think is a pretty stupid thing to say if you’ve got no proof.
And my opinion is that there is absolutely no proof that carbon dioxide is anything to do with any impending catastrophe. The science has, quite simply, gone awry. In fact, it’s not even science any more, it’s anti-science.
There’s no proof, it’s just projections and if you look at the models people such as Gore use, you can see they cherry pick the ones that support their beliefs.
To date, the way the so-called Greens and the BBC, the Royal Society and even our political parties have handled this smacks of McCarthyism at its worst.
Global warming is part of a natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.
And how were we convinced that this problem exists, even though all the evidence from measurements goes against the fact? God knows. Yes, the lakes in Africa are drying up. But that’s not global warming. They’re drying up for the very simple reason that most of them have dams around them.
So the water that used to be used by local people is now used in the production of cut flowers and veget ables for the supermarkets of Europe.
One of Al Gore’s biggest clangers was saying that the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was drying up because of global warming. Well, everyone knows, because it was all over the news 20 years ago, that the Russians were growing cotton there at the time and that for every ton of cotton you produce you use a vast amount of water.
The thing that annoys me most is that there are genuine environmental problems that desperately require attention. I’m still an environmentalist, I’m still a Green and I’m still campaigning to stop the destruction of the biodiversity of the world. But money will be wasted on trying to solve this global warming “problem” that I would much rather was used for looking after the people of the world.
Being ignored by the likes of the BBC does not really bother me, not when there are much bigger problems at stake.
I might not be on TV any more but I still go around the world campaigning about these important issues. For example, we must stop the dest ruc tion of trop ical rainforests, something I’ve been saying for 35 years.
Mother nature will balance things out but not if we interfere by destroying rainforests and overfishing the seas.
That is where the real environmental catastrophe could occur.
INTERVIEW BY HELEN DOWD
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WELL DONE MR BELLAMY!
06.11.08, 8:08pm
Mr Bellamy should know that he is even more loved and an even greater hero than he ever was since his appearance on Channel4 News years ago when he challenged the childish assumptions put forward by Monbiot, and stood by the TRUTH, at a time when so many were misled and fooled by the likes of the Monbiot .
Well done! Well done! Well done!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!
• Posted by: Sal2000 • Report Comment
DENIERS AND FLAT-EARTHERS
06.11.08, 8:06pm
Bottletop I see you have given the classic reply to skeptics by insulting them in calling them deniers and flat-earthers. But you forgot to mention the big oil companies so I will do it for you Exxon has allegedly given $19million to skeptical scientists for research but the US government has given $50 billion to buy climate scientists who have not yet proved AGW. So remember their computer results as expressed by the IPCC are projections not predictions. Is a projection proof of anything?
• Posted by: skeptic5 • Report Comment
I WANT BELLAMY BACK ON TV
06.11.08, 6:30pm
The BBC were severly slapped about the 45 minute claim and the David Kelly thing. Slapped again about the Ross and Brand thing. However when they put out some lies about World Trade Center building 7 they get away with it.
Why do we pay to be lied to and insulted by the BBC? Because it's the LAW!!
If David Bellamy wants to get on the Telly then he should get on YouTube. Even better go onto a less used TV server and be the Number One TV programme on there.
This will work for quite a while because it will take a few years before the real Internet is replaced by the dumbed down child safe version.
• Posted by: Wayland • Report Comment
ARE WE GOD?
06.11.08, 6:03pm
Well done David B and congrats Daily Express for having the guts to publish such an article.
We pretend we understand our planet but I doubt it. Such a complex system is surely not going to be thrown off balance by mankind. A good job we never designed it, I'm sure it is welll able to look after itself as it has done for l millions of years.
I'm more concerned at how touchy every single pro GW is when questioned, or it is suggested that they could possible be wrong. Makes me think there is something to hide and the sooner we allow those scientists who hold counter views a voice, the happier many of us will be.
• Posted by: exporters • Report Comment
HE MAY BE SHUNNED BUT HE CAN FACE HIMSELF AND OTHERS
06.11.08, 5:37pm
New theoretical and observational evidence from satellite data shows that the U.N.’s IPCC models of obtaining feedback on real climate sensitivity, are unrealistic by excluding cloud variations and overestimate with outdated methods used for extracting feedback signal. For people who don’t have an ulterior economic interest, this is potentially great news regarding the formerly relied upon manmade climate change hypothesis. The suppression and pursuit of knowledge are incompatible. Hat's off to Mr. Bellamy.
• Posted by: Dawneyr • Report Comment
FALSE LOGIC DOESN'T HELP THE GW CAUSE
06.11.08, 5:09pm
Reading comments on this compelling article from defenders of the idea of significant human caused global warming, I am amused by some of the tactics I see. Challenging bloggers to support their statements with peer reviewed papers as though they were graduate students and suggesting their statements are baseless when they either can't or don't is amazingly weak. To follow such logic, if a child informed you in 1966 that Jupiter has a ring around it, you would determine the truth of the statement by challenging the child to produce scientific proof, a child? The child would turn out to be right and you would have been wrong. I would suggest that instead of attacking those making the claims, that you instead investigate them yourself. I would suggest that if there were not serious problems with the idea of significant human caused global warming there would not be so many people poking at it, especially many scientists. So, make your case as it seriously needs being made if it's true, but please don't attack those poking at it.
• Posted by: STMenzies • Report Comment