BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.

A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.

Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.

His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.

Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing the orthodox line on climate change.

"When I first stuck my head above the parapet to say I didn’t believe what we were being told about global warming I had no idea what the consequences would be.

I am a scientist and I have to ­follow the directions of science but when I see that the truth is being covered up I have to voice my ­opinions.

According to official data, in every year since 1998 world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that?

The sad fact is that since I said I didn’t believe human beings caused global warming I’ve not been allowed to make a TV programme.

My absence has been noticed, because wherever I go I meet people who say: “I grew up with you on the television, where are you now?”

It was in 1996 that I criticised wind farms while appearing on Blue Peter and I also had an article published in which I described global warming as poppycock.

The truth is, I didn’t think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line and I wasn’t doing that.

At that point I was still making loads of television programmes and I was enjoying it greatly. Then I suddenly found I was sending in ideas for TV shows and they weren’t getting taken up. I’ve asked around about why I’ve been ignored but I found that people didn’t get back to me.

At the beginning of this year there was a BBC show with four experts saying: “This is going to be the end of all the ice in the Arctic,” and hypothesising that it was going to be the hottest summer ever. Was it hell! It was very cold and very wet and now we’ve seen evidence that the glaciers in Alaska have started growing rapidly – and they’ve not grown for a long time.

I’ve seen evidence, which I believe, that says there has not been a rise in global temperature since 1998, despite the increase in carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere. This makes me think the global warmers are telling lies – carbon dioxide is not the driver.

The idiot fringe have accused me of being like a Holocaust denier, which is ludicrous. Climate change is all about cycles, it’s a natural thing and has always happened. When the Romans lived in Britain they were growing very good red grapes and making wine on the borders of Scotland. It was evidently a lot warmer.

If you were sitting next to me 10,000 years ago we’d be under ice. So thank God for global warming for ending that ice age; we wouldn’t be here otherwise.

People such as former American Vice-President Al Gore say that millions of us will die because of global warming – which I think is a pretty stupid thing to say if you’ve got no proof.

And my opinion is that there is absolutely no proof that carbon dioxide is anything to do with any impending catastrophe. The ­science has, quite simply, gone awry. In fact, it’s not even science any more, it’s anti-science.

There’s no proof, it’s just projections and if you look at the models people such as Gore use, you can see they cherry pick the ones that support their beliefs.

To date, the way the so-called Greens and the BBC, the Royal Society and even our political parties have handled this smacks of McCarthyism at its worst.

Global warming is part of a natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

And how were we convinced that this problem exists, even though all the evidence from measurements goes against the fact? God knows. Yes, the lakes in Africa are drying up. But that’s not global warming. They’re drying up for the very ­simple reason that most of them have dams around them.

So the water that used to be used by local people is now used in the production of cut flowers and veget­ables for the supermarkets of Europe.

One of Al Gore’s biggest clangers was saying that the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was drying up because of global warming. Well, everyone knows, because it was all over the news 20 years ago, that the Russians were growing cotton there at the time and that for every ton of cotton you produce you use a vast amount of water.

The thing that annoys me most is that there are genuine environmental problems that desperately require attention. I’m still an environmentalist, I’m still a Green and I’m still campaigning to stop the destruction of the biodiversity of the world. But money will be wasted on trying to solve this global warming “problem” that I would much rather was used for looking after the people of the world.

Being ignored by the likes of the BBC does not really bother me, not when there are much bigger problems at stake.

I might not be on TV any more but I still go around the world campaigning about these important issues. For example, we must stop the dest­ruc­tion of trop­ical rainforests, something I’ve been saying for 35 years.

Mother nature will balance things out but not if we interfere by destroying rainforests and overfishing the seas.

That is where the real environmental catastrophe could occur.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/69623#

[SteveLaura 0]

It's quite a leap from saying that he doesn't make TV shows anymore to being shunned for his climate change views. Is there also a conspiracy why Johnny Morris, Mike Yarwood & John Craven aren't around either?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yeah the Daily Outrage is the place where you can find all kinds of knee-jerk thread starters.

Firstly - Bellamy isn't a research scientist, certainly not in the area of climatology and meteorology.

Secondly - the decline in his career had a lot to do with his political activities in the late 90s, in much the same was as Martin Bell - who had to resign his position at the BBC when he ran for political office because it created a conflict of interest.

Thirdly - aside from one 2007 paper he co-authored none of the claims Bellamy has presented in public position on this subject are based on any tangible research (either conducted by him or from the work of other scientists. As such - his views on climate change must be viewed as a personal opinion.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's quite a leap from saying that he doesn't make TV shows anymore to being shunned for his climate change views. Is there also a conspiracy why Johnny Morris, Mike Yarwood & John Craven aren't around either?

Or Terry Nutkins (with his mulletus interruptus)...

John Craven always used to remind me of Mr Spock from Star Trek.

[SteveLaura 0]

Terry Nutkins was shunned for his extreme views regarding the comb-over, I hear.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Terry Nutkins was shunned for his extreme views regarding the comb-over, I hear.

I wonder if he'd be allowed back on TV with a mullet (even if its just the party in the back part) in this day and age...

[Sister Fracas 5]

Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand were shunned from the BBC for making prank phone calls...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Angus Deayton was fired from the BBC for hiring a prostitute and doing cocaine in a hotel room. The episode of Have I Got News For You he did after that story broke was pure farce. Paul Merton unbuttoned his shirt and revealed a T-Shirt with a print of the front page of The Sun on it, and Ian Hislop starting reading the newspaper in front of the live audience.

Then there was Childrens BBC presenter Jamie Theakston who got sacked after being caught by photographers coming out of a London brothel that specialised in S&M.

I also heard that the guy who did one of the TV art shows killed himself after his g/f Od'd on drugs.

Does anyone remember Tony Hart?

[HAL 9000 96]

Yeah the Daily Outrage is the place where you can find all kinds of knee-jerk thread starters.

Firstly - Bellamy isn't a research scientist, certainly not in the area of climatology and meteorology.

Secondly - the decline in his career had a lot to do with his political activities in the late 90s, in much the same was as Martin Bell - who had to resign his position at the BBC when he ran for political office because it created a conflict of interest.

Thirdly - aside from one 2007 paper he co-authored none of the claims Bellamy has presented in public position on this subject are based on any tangible research (either conducted by him or from the work of other scientists. As such - his views on climate change must be viewed as a personal opinion.

I'll give him credit for having an opinion too.

[mawilson 2,133]

Terry Nutkins was shunned for his extreme views regarding the comb-over, I hear.

As well as for his name.

[Amby 490]

Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand were shunned from the BBC for making prank phone calls...

who did they call again?

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand were shunned from the BBC for making prank phone calls...

who did they call again?

[rocks 494]

Yeah the Daily Outrage is the place where you can find all kinds of knee-jerk thread starters.

Firstly - Bellamy isn't a research scientist, certainly not in the area of climatology and meteorology.

Secondly - the decline in his career had a lot to do with his political activities in the late 90s, in much the same was as Martin Bell - who had to resign his position at the BBC when he ran for political office because it created a conflict of interest.

Thirdly - aside from one 2007 paper he co-authored none of the claims Bellamy has presented in public position on this subject are based on any tangible research (either conducted by him or from the work of other scientists. As such - his views on climate change must be viewed as a personal opinion.

exactly, the daily express.

luckystrike, nice attempt but try reading a real newspaper and get back to us on that one.

if you visit their website you will notice that "news" and "showbiz" are the same link. i don't think i need to say anything else but lets see what wikipedia has to say anyway.

"The Daily Express is a conservative, middle-market British tabloid newspaper."

:rofl:

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

oh right, attack the source of info. #1827

[rocks 494]

Angus Deayton was fired from the BBC for hiring a prostitute and doing cocaine in a hotel room. The episode of Have I Got News For You he did after that story broke was pure farce. Paul Merton unbuttoned his shirt and revealed a T-Shirt with a print of the front page of The Sun on it, and Ian Hislop starting reading the newspaper in front of the live audience.

Then there was Childrens BBC presenter Jamie Theakston who got sacked after being caught by photographers coming out of a London brothel that specialised in S&M.

I also heard that the guy who did one of the TV art shows killed himself after his g/f Od'd on drugs.

Does anyone remember Tony Hart?

baha, i remember all of that happening. the bit on hignfy was hilarious and to be quite honest i think i prefer it now that they have guest presenters.

tony hart was the best, i loved hart beat when i was lil. *hums the theme tune*