Regular readers may have noticed over recent months a falling off in the number of caustic posts on the subject of HAFs (Hot Air Fanatics) and their misdeeds and I shall now explain why. There are some advantages to being old, one of which is that you live through numerous panics and scares got up by so-called 'experts' whose ill-judged fears are pandered to by politicians and spivs eager for new ways to rook the public. The 'experts' mean well and actually believe what they say because they have allowed their technocratic knowledge to outweigh their commonsense. You will notice that in that last sentence I carefully avoided the word 'scientific' or any of its variations because these 'experts', despite their B.Scs and Ph.Ds, are not true scientists, they are merely technocrats. I remember many years ago sitting next to a young man at a dinner who was spoken of in hushed whispers as an absolute scientific wizard. It was just around the time I had discovered Karl Popper, arguably one of the greatest philsophers of science in the 20th century. This young whizz-kid had never heard of him! Of course, when these technocratic nonentities who have spent a lifetime concentrating on some particularly obscure field of science suddenly find themselves in the limelight, glad-handed by the Great and the Good, given enormous budgets and their every word treated as gospel, then it is no surprise that they fall for it and in doing so forget (if they were ever taught, which is doubtful in what passes for a university education these days) the essence of true science, that is, doubt, humility, an open-minded desire for contradiction and counter-proof. I don't blame them, they are human, after all, and who of us would willingly forego fame and fortune because our pet theory fails to quite fit all the circs? In fact, now that I think about it, I would like to express my thanks to them all because the farrago, the travesty, the God-almighty train crash that is now the Anthropogenic Global Warming scam must, by now, have done more to educate the public in the dangers of suspending judgment when technocrats aided by politicians and money-men attempt to hoist us all with some mad idea.
When the East Anglia University scandal blew up in the faces of the technocrats and their political mouthpieces I knew that the AGW scam was all over bar the shouting, in Pythonesque, 'this scam is dead, this scam has ceased to be'! Of course, it would take some time but scurry and squeak as they may, the main movers and shakers know the game is up. I was pleased to see young Delingpole of The Telegraph confirming this with a little-noticed item which he spotted recently. It came hidden in the agenda for the June meeting of the Bilderberg group. (NB: Treat the 'Wiki' link with caution, I haven't read it in detail and provide it only to give you a general idea of this organisation.) The Bilderberg meetings are the stuff of Left-wing orgasms, formed, as they are, of 130-odd of the world's leading bankers, businessmen, military chiefs and media moguls and to which invitations are highly selective and the nature of the discussions absolutely private and confidential. However, young Delingpole of the 'Lower Sixth' obtained a view of the agenda for the June meeting. In it he spotted, dare I call it, an anomaly:
Which is what makes one particular item on the group’s discussion agenda so tremendously significant. See if you can spot the one I mean:
The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.
Yeees, quite so, "global cooling", well I never!
Now, as it happens, I have some sympathy for the notion that the earth might be entering a cooler phase. No, don't ask me to explain the science of it, suffice to say that several proper scientists, that is, those who openly admit their ignorance of much of the physics of atmosphere and the influence on it of the sun, predicate, hesitantly, that there are indications of a cold snap. As I have pointed out before, global warming had some huge advantages for Mankind which were never stressed by the HAFs but global cooling, if it happens, is an almost unalloyed disaster. If anyone can provide me with a more cheering view of global cooling I for one will be delighted to hear it and may well cover them in kisses by way of reward!
Anyway, it is early days yet and it will be fascinating to see how the science proceeds. However, as young Delingpole points out, the main danger, of course, is not necessarily the cooling itself but the political bandwagon which will attach itself to it. Still, I shall be able to warm myself with the excellent good humour to be derived from watching the HAFs slowly but surely turning themselves inside out in order to become CAFs - such dexterity, such fun!
In the meantime, my advice is - go long on Long Johns!
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