I’M sure that David Griffiths (Mailbag, April 28) doesn’t need me to answer his somewhat facetious question about the global warming conspirators, but some people might.
The main protagonist is of course the anti-West United Nations, under the auspices of the International Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists reliant upon continuous government and university research grants for their living and who poise out any members who dissent.
Their opinions are distilled into attention-grabbing headlines which are then exaggerated by the world’s lazy and sensationalist media, as well as Left-wing and anti-establishment bodies like the BBC.
“Green” politicians, rightly dismissed for the last 40 years as alarmist loons, can now smell the perfume of real political power (God help us) and do their best to play-up the “threat”, which was also a useful world bogeyman between the end of the Cold War and 9/11. Inevitably our government then uses the scare as an ideal excuse for social control and, inevitably, higher taxes. As usual our spineless MPs just toe the party line.
So, despite there being an increasing amount of evidence against man-made climate change and proof that the world stopped warming up in 1997, we’re likely to have to suffer at least 30 years of being bullied and taxed out of our cars and aeroplanes, a country swamped with useless wind farms and trillions of dollars wasted trying to cure a problem beyond our control, before we can look back and shake our heads at the folly of it all.
Richard Huddleston
West Slaithwaite
