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Look at this one:

"Our politicians," he says, "need to be honest with the people. If they believe that we need to cut back drastically on carbon dioxide emissions today, at considerable cost and disruption to our way of life, because there is a remote risk of major disaster some time in the distant future, they should make the case explicitly in those terms."

I like that. I might even be on board if they were so honest. Look at all the sacrifices that we made during World War II. The President said that we need to make sacrifices for the war effort and everyone complied without complaint.

This one also gets me going:

"The fact is," he concludes, "that the science of what determines the earth's temperature is far from settled or understood - and fortunately opinion surveys suggest that the majority of people, even in the UK where politicians of all parties sing from the same politically correct hymn sheet, instinctively sense that this is so."

Exactly! The opinion polls are so skewed and reported so weirdly. Look at how this poll in Canada was reported, even the people that are educated about the subject are portrayed as stupid if they did not agree with the IPCC:

While climate change was the top environmental concern mentioned by respondents, 79 per cent said they believed they understood this issue fairly or very well. However, when asked "specifically" what was causing global warming, only 38 per cent of respondents could accurately identify greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide, or the burning of fossil fuels, oil, gas or coal for causing the heat-trapping pollution that warms the atmosphere."

Accurately identify? That is hilarious. These are adults on the phone. Photo by Yogi

Then Lord Lawson makes a great analogy:

He ends by describing "the new religion of global warming" as "the Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great story and a best-seller. It contains a grain of truth and a mountain of nonsense.

"We have entered," he says, "a new age of unreason, which threatens to be as economically harmful as it is disquieting. It is from this, above all, that we really do need to save the planet."

HEHE. I really need to own this book.