In this issue.

• Author: Ayres, Philip
• Position: 178221273
• Pages: 6(3)

John Stone's leading article dissects the greatest fallacies in the "global warming" claims, bringing together the counter-arguments that will, one hopes, soon ensure the demise of this highly infectious and emotive "religion"--which is what it has become, its fervent believers anathematising all sceptics and unbelievers. Never mind that China has just had one of the coldest winters on record--that is to be put down as one more product of "global warming". Never mind that there has been no measurable global warming since 1998. Never mind that sea levels have not risen one centimeter (high-tide marks on ancient bridges are still correct today). Never mind that the 1960s and early 1970s were years of much-dreaded "global cooling". Unfortunately, the Rudd government appears bent on appeasing the ardent believers, at huge long-term cost to our economy. In the words of one prominent sceptic, Nigel Lawson, "The more one examines the current global warming orthodoxy, the more it resembles a Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great story, and a phenomenal bestseller. It contains a grain of truth--and a mountain of nonsense...