David Bellamy Booted By UK Conservation Groups For Global Warming Lies

[hatrack]

"PROFESSOR David Bellamy is likely to lose his role as the figurehead of two leading wildlife organisations because of his refusal to believe in man-made global warming. The television presenter and conservationist is the president of Plantlife International and of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. Both organisations have given warnings that wildlife faces a catastrophe because of global warming.

They have been acutely embarrassed to discover that while they have been campaigning to raise awareness, their president has been leading seminars and writing articles in science magazines declaring that man-made warming is a myth.

Last week Plantlife International, Britain’s leading charity dedicated to the conservation of wild plants, wrote to Bellamy to say that his term of office would end in the autumn and he would not be asked to renew it. His presidency of the Wildlife Trusts — which has 562,000 members and manages 2,500 nature reserves — also ends in the autumn and is unlikely to be renewed.

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In January he gave a keynote speech at the Royal Institution in London which was hosting Apocalypse No, a conference organised by the Scientific Alliance. “Global warming is a largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed,” he said. Last month he made similar assertions in New Scientist magazine when he claimed that glaciers were expanding because the world was getting cooler rather than warmer. The claim contradicted recent scientific studies that found 85% of the world’s glaciers are in retreat."

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1612958,00.html

[pretzel4gore]

1. jesus christ! what's wrong with lies?

this is georgebushamerica where foxnews leaves few clues and hypocrisy is the new mom's apple pie....fukkin hippies should get over it!....truth=commodity, ie for sale
dumkoft bastards
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[mrfrapp]

2. He's a shill

There's no other explanation.

Even if man's contribution to global warming is non-existant why on Earth would an environmentalist advocate a position that encouraged the increased use of motor cars and oil burning factories? Quite apart from global warming, these things smell, are noisy and make a mess in other ways.

He says, that "the world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed". Even if that were true, why is looking into alternative energy sources a "waste of money"?

Nah. Bellamy's in the pay of someone. Either that or he's lost whatever common sense he might have once had.