Climate change boondoggle

Ah, summer is here and February ( always the warmest month) is just around the corner, so stand by for scary tales of climate change and global warming. "Hottest February since records began" is bound to be a headline somewhere in the southern hemisphere as is something like "Man-made global warming poses threat to world peace". The usual bullshit about a " consensus of scientists" agreeing that man made emissions are the main culprit, will be written and no doubt some of the more sensitive souls on the planet will pull duvets over their heads and sink into a slough of despond. Here, to help readers face the horrors are some factoids that just might keep the flame of honest doubt burning. 1.There is no consensus of scientists regarding man made global warming -- or if there is, it is certainly not made up of meteorologists. Anyway a consensus of scientists ( if there is one) does not mean they are right. In 1911, a consensus of scientists in Britain predicted solemnly that by 1940 London would be knee- deep in horse manure. 2. The world might be warming a couple of degrees but if it is --and if it does --it is not something to panic about. In 900AD the world was a couple of degrees warmer than it is now and people lived, animals flourished and wheat and cattle were being raised in Greenland. The Romans, 800 years before than, even, were growing grapes as far north in England as York. (Try that now!). 3. Historians among my readers might like to notice that 900 AD predates industrialisation and filthy capitalism. 4.Computer projections of future global warming are based on some figures collected on instruments which vary tremendously in sophistication -- 18th century thermometers; Victorian amateur weather watchers tables etc. GIGA applies ( garbage in, garbage out). 5. The latest 2006/07 figures show no appreciable rise in world temperatures, by the way. So, don't worry folks. The world is not about to fry your brains. And, by the way, there are a great deal more of these facts that the global warming fanatics fail to tell you.