Global warming anguish might be just hot air

And don't forget any recent risings or coolings are measured in parts of a degree per decade. Claiming you can measure a change in temperature across the whole planet in the order of one degree per century is like claiming you can measure the change in velocity of a woolly mammoth hit by a mosquito.

Climatologists on both sides know, 'If you torture the data long enough it will confess.' And if you feed it into your favourite computer climate-model, it will come out balancing a ball on its nose.

The tragedy is that we are surrounded by a plethora of real environmental problems, ranging from coastal ribbon development to salination. Yet, like children too frightened to look under the bed, we're intimidated by a totally unprovable and extremely unlikely doomsday prophecy.

We can't see carbon dioxide, we can't feel an annual increase of 0.006 degrees per year, and the very intangibility of this so-called crisis allows vested interests to keep the population cowering before a vengeful god called Climate, while they robe themselves in conjecture masquerading as fact and replace virgin sacrifices with carbon taxes.

They really are doing their best to drag the masses back into the world that existed before scientific method actually became a help in improving our lives.

From now on, what goes up will only come down if enough committees agree.

Where will this madness end?.