Thursday, August 27, 2009

The truth behind Andrew's holiday

What's this? Andrew Bolt unexpectedly up and left for a month long holiday in Europe to (ostensibly) celebrate his 50th birthday.

Yet at the very same time:
Britain's climate campers set up their annual protest camp yesterday on Blackheath, the historic London open space that was key in the peasants' revolt.

The 1,000-plus green activists are camped this morning on the fields where Wat Tyler's peasant army assembled for its assault on The City of London in June 1381. And they are planning their own assault – on what they see as the companies, institutions and government departments helping to cause global warming (or not doing enough to stop it).

Co-incidence? In my semi-comedic fantasies, Andrew mixes it up with a bunch of semi-feral climate change advocates, either as a convert or a spy.

Anyhow, his column on turning 50 contained a pleasing humility, I thought. The only odd thing is how it doesn't seem to extend to the prospect that his opinion on climate change might be wrong.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Maybe because his views on "climate change" is not wrong. Would love to see what evidence you think exists to support "climate change" - from the 0.4degC increase in average global temperatures (that's just noise) to the increasing ice in the Antarctic.

Steve said...

William, I find the best resource for nearly all things to do with AGW to be the Skeptical Science site listed in my links at the side. I have complained before that Andrew Bolt shows no sign of having read this, or any other AGW resource, to be aware of the counter arguments that exist to the skeptical arguments he frequently runs with.

But, as always, I should remind you that I am of the view that, even if AGW were disproved tomorrow, CO2 should be curtailed due to ocean acidification.