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[BARISTA] bellamy pulled to the dark side: As the Guardian says: "Bellamy's book is great on his own childhood in Surrey: from the kidney illness that should have killed him (he heard the hospital sister tell his mother, "He won't be with us tomorrow.") to ducking and diving in Doodlebug Alley when the bombs were falling in the war (two hit his house); to chatting to the ghost of his grandmother by a flowering yucca plant on his way home, before he knew she had died; to his ballet and rugby obsessions; to working at the local Paynes factory where the girls got up to all kinds of tricks with the boys and molten chocolate. He was such an innocent young man, had no idea that girls were interested in sex until he got to the factory. "It was much worse at the ink factory because they used to push it into an ink bottle and then amuse you.

[Mitra.biz] Mitra - Natural Innovation: Climate change denial, as David ...: They were first published online by Professor Fred Singer, one of the very few climate change deniers who has a vaguely relevant qualification (he is, or was, an environmental scientist). He posted them on his website www.sepp.org, and they were then reproduced by the appropriately named junkscience.com, by the Cooler Heads Coalition, the National Center for Public Policy Research and countless others.(14) They have even found their way into the Washington Post.(15) They are constantly quoted as evidence that manmade climate change is not happening. But where did they come from? Singer cites half a source: “a paper published in Science in 1989”.(16) Well, the paper might be 16 years old, but at least, and at last, there is one.

[UNCoRRELATED] Can Science have Heretics?: In perhaps the most tell-tale sign that the environmentalist movement is akin to a new-age religion, Professor David Bellamy is expected to lose his position at Plantlife International and The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts because he doesn't believe that global warming is an anthropogenic (er-r-r, the lovely bunny says that some people won't understand this word. It means resulting from the influence of human beings...).

[Martyn Shrewsbury] The Curse of Ioan..or bye bye Bellamy, goodbye: Wildlife groups axe Bellamy as global warming ”˜heretic’ Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor PROFESSOR David Bellamy is likely to lose his role as the figurehead of two leading wildlife... charity dedicated to the conservation of wild plants, wrote to Bellamy to say that his term of office

 [GREENIE WATCH] HERETIC BELLAMY: IF ONLY THEY COULD BURN HIM AT TH...: Braithwaite found some glaciers were melting, while a nearly equal number were growing in size, and still others remained stable. He concluded, "There is no obvious common or global trend of increasing glacier melt in recent years." But if your goal is to frighten the public into thinking humans are causing global warming with potentially catastrophic consequences, there is no shortage of melting glaciers to report upon. By some estimates, 160,000 glaciers exist on Earth. Only 63,000 have been inventoried, and only a few hundred have been studied in the detail described by Braithwaite.

 [Effect Measure] Bad typing and bad science: Sadly, he appears to believe what he says. But there indeed was all the material Bellamy cited in his letter, including the figures -- or something resembling the figures -- he quoted. "Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich." The source, which Bellamy also cited in his email to me, was given as "the latest issue of 21st Century Science and Technology."

 [Billtotten.blogspot.com] Bill Totten's Weblog: Junk Science: But there indeed was all the material Bellamy cited in his letter, including the figures - or something resembling the figures - he quoted. "Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich". The source, which Bellamy also cited in his email to me, was given as "the latest issue of 21st Century Science and Technology".

 [Motherjones.com] MoJo Blog: A Glitch of the Electronics?: In today's Guardian, George Monbiot does a little investigative journalism to uncover the truth behind some remarkable claims published in New Scientist by David Bellamy, a renowned British Botanist, refuting the existence of climate change. Bellamy claims that contrary to widely held beliefs, "555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have been growing since 1980."

 [Ministry-of-information.co.uk] The Ministry Blog: I'm appalled: The problem is that the evidence for the statement just doesn't exist in any credible form, if indeed at all. The research cited by Prof, Bellamy (or rather, not cited, but teased out of him by Monbiot) was from a book vanity-published by an ex-architect and a journal published by a convicted fraudster and conspiracy theorist. The latter is allegedly based on data from a 1989 paper in a 'real' scientific journal – but there's no such paper.

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