I Am A Climate Change Skeptic, Not A Denier

A brave parent had taken the British government to court over its decision to distribute the Gore movie to every school in the country. No one thought he would win his case but he did. The judge found that far from being a normal documentary, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH was a polemic, but a polemic with vital errors in it. Nine of them.

The reaction among British environmentalists was a joy to behold. They took the line that the errors didn’t really matter. Polemicists always overstate their case, they said. So that’s alright then. We’re happy to brainwash our children with wrong information, are we? Hmmmm. I suppose that always was the approach of the left.

I do not deny that climate change is taking place. It always has and always will. What I find difficult to judge is how much of the climate change is due to man made activity. I watched the Al Gore movie and then I watched the British TV documentary THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE. I was even more confused. So I am a confirmed climate change skeptic, yet to come off the fence.

Yet, because I haven’t signed up to the climate change religion – for that is what it has become – I am labeled a ‘climate change denier’. Not only is this grossly insulting, it is a ludicrous mis-characterization. What it implies is that I am the moral equivalent of a holocaust denier. There may even be people who might quite like to lock me up for my thought crime. To allow the left to continue to use this term and get away with it is dangerous.

Organizations like Greenpeace refuse to debate the issue of climate change with people like me. They say there is no point as the argument is already won.