18 May 2005 David Bellamy Challenges Global Warming Orthodoxy

Husband David has some thoughts on a recent news item:

You ever wonder why environmental groups walk in such lock step on the global warming theory? Maybe it’s because they censor colleagues who disagree.

The Sunday Times (UK) reported last Sunday that Professor David Bellamy is about to be forced out as figurehead of two leading environmental organizations, Plantlife International and the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, because he refuses to believe in human-induced global warming.

Bellamy, a former botany lecturer at Durham University, is the author of over 40 books and more than 80 scientific papers on the ecology and the environment. He has written and presented over 400 programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation and Britain’s Independent Television. This work has won him the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Richard Dimbleby Award.

His environmental work has earned him the Dutch Order of the Golden Ark and the United Nations Environmental Program’s Global 500 Award, among others.

In January, Bellamy told the Royal Institution in London, “Global warming is largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed… The climate change people have no proof for their claims. They have computer models which do not prove anything.”

The Sunday Times article is worth reading in its entirety.