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How the lies on global warming snowballed
From The Independent, Monday, March 20, 2000, a story headlined: ‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.’
It quoted Dr David Viner, head of the climate unit at the University of East Anglia, as saying that in future: ‘Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.’
That would be the same Dr David Viner whose department was accused of suppressing the existence of evidence casting doubt on global warming.
The coldest winter in 30 years: Far from being a thing of the past, snowfalls are still very much with us
The coldest winter in 30 years: Far from being a thing of the past, snowfalls are still very much with us
Thirteen years ago, the global warming gravy train was only just getting into gear. Since then we’ve lived through a decade of global cooling.
Far from being a thing of the past, snowfalls are still very much with us. This has been the coldest winter in 30 years.
Rather than admit they were wrong, the so-called ‘experts’ simply changed the rules. Out went ‘global warming’, in came ‘climate change’.
The Government’s outgoing chief scientist was yesterday still insisting that the world is heating up.
Dr David Viner was quoted in a story in The Independent back in 2000 saying: 'Children just aren't going to know what snow is'
Dr David Viner was quoted in a story in The Independent back in 2000 saying: 'Children just aren't going to know what snow is'
When confronted with evidence to the contrary, he tried hilariously to argue that the weather we are currently experiencing is being caused by all the carbon we released into the atmosphere 25 years ago.
Yep, the snow which has Britain in its grip this week has been a quarter of a century in the making.
If you believe that, you’ll believe anything. Actually, the global warming, sorry ‘climate change’ head-bangers will believe anything which reinforces their zealotry.
Unshakeable faith in ‘climate change’ is now the official religion of the Met Office, Whitehall, the EU, the UN and the BBC.
We are all paying for this lunacy through our gas and electricity bills, which are inflated by heavy subsidies for inefficient and ludicrously expensive ‘green’ energy sources.
In the name of saving the planet, our countryside and coastline have been scarred by useless wind farms. Meanwhile, India and China open another coal-fired power station every five minutes. We are closing perfectly good power stations to meet arbitrary EU carbon targets.
Soon this bovine stupidity will lead to the lights going out across the country. It is industrial and economic suicide.
At the weekend we came dangerously close to running out of gas. Yet Britain is sitting on a bottomless well of shale gas just waiting to be exploited. Shale has transformed America and slashed energy bills.
But ministers remain in thrall to the eco-maniacs and the greedy spivs of the ‘green’ energy industry, growing fat by fleecing consumers as an instrument of government policy, which is still being dictated by the deluded, lying fanatics who told us 13 years ago: ‘Snowfalls are a thing of the past.’
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Dr David Viner was quoted in a story in The Independent back in 2000 saying: 'Children just aren't going to know what snow is'