I Have A Feeling That

We Thought We Knew 20 Years Ago. That Led To Some Alarmist Books – Mine Included – Because It Looked Clear-cut, But It Hasn’t Happened. The Climate Is Doing Its Usual Tricks. There’s Nothing Much Really Happening Yet. We Were Supposed To Be Halfway Toward A Frying World Now. The World Has Not Warmed Up Very Much Since The Millennium. Twelve Years Is A Reasonable Time. The Temperature Has Stayed Almost Constant, Whereas It Should Have Been Rising - Carbon Dioxide Is Rising, No Question About That.

One Thing That Being A Scientist Has Taught Me Is That You Can Never Be Certain About Anything. You Never Know The Truth. You Can Only Approach It And Hope To Get A Bit Nearer To It Each Time. You Iterate Towards The Truth. You Don't Know It.

Only Rarely Do We See Beyond The Needs Of Humanity, And He Linked This Blindness To Our Christian And Humanist Infrastructure. It Arose 2,000 Years Ago And Was Then Benign, And We Were No Significant Threat To Gaia. Now That We Are Over Six Billion Hungry And Greedy Individuals, All Aspiring To A First-world Lifestyle, Our Urban Way Of Life Encroaches Upon The Domain Of The Living Earth.

Esso Has Been The Main One In America Spreading The Disinformation That There Is No Global Warming Problem.

The Apologists For Space Science Always Seem Over-impressed By Engineering Trivia And Make Far Too Much Of Non-stick Frying Pans And Perfect Ball-bearings. To My Mind, The Outstanding Spin-off From Space Research Is Not New Technology. The Real Bonus Has Been That For The First Time In Human History We Have Had A Chance To Look At The Earth From Space, And The Information Gained From Seeing From The Outside Our Azure-green Planet In All Its Global Beauty Has Given Rise To A Whole New Set Of Questions And Answers.