Meet Professor Ian Plimer, a geologist at Adelaide University in Australia and author of Heaven and Earth, and an vocal opponent to Al Gore’s favorite hobby, global warming fear-mongering. The Spectator of U.K. sheds some light onto this unpopular scientist and what he’s up against:
Plimer’s uncompromising position has not made him popular. ‘They say I rape cows, eat babies, that I know nothing about anything. My favourite letter was the one that said: “Dear sir, drop dead”. I’ve also had a demo in Sydney outside one of my book launches, and I’ve had mothers coming up to me with two-year-old children in their arms saying: “Don’t you have any kind of morality? This child’s future is being destroyed.’’’ Plimer’s response to the last one is typically robust. ‘If you’re so concerned, why did you breed?’
I wish we could find out what Al Gore thinks of him, eh? But here is an accomplished scientist who spends his time digging and analyzing dirt and rocks, who is offering contrary views on global warming — calling it a sham — but the environmentalism establishment wouldn’t give him a few minutes to make his case? What are they afraid of? Truth be told, I’d rather believe a scholarly geologist than an ex-senator on the issue of global climate change.
Here are some of Prof. Plimer’s insights according to his book:
What Heaven And Earth sets out to do is restore a sense of scientific perspective to a debate which has been hijacked by ‘politicians, environmental activists and opportunists’. It points out, for example, that polar ice has been present on earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time; that extinctions of life are normal; that climate changes are cyclical and random; that the CO2 in the atmosphere — to which human activity contributes the tiniest fraction — is only 0.001 per cent of the total CO2 held in the oceans, surface rocks, air, soils and life; that CO2 is not a pollutant but a plant food; that the earth’s warmer periods — such as when the Romans grew grapes and citrus trees as far north as Hadrian’s Wall — were times of wealth and plenty.
Makes sense to me! Co2 is not a pollutant, it’s “plant food” and necessary to sustain life on this planet. Earth cools and warms regularly, much like our physical body even when it is healthy.
The professor hits a home run with this:
Does he really believe his message will ever get through? Plimer smiles. ‘If you’d asked any scientist or doctor 30 years ago where stomach ulcers come from, they would all have given the same answer: obviously it comes from the acid brought on by too much stress. All of them apart from two scientists who were pilloried for their crazy, whacko theory that it was caused by a bacteria. In 2005 they won the Nobel prize. The “consensus” was wrong.’
Now I don’t have to feel guilty every time I let out a breath.
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