On climate change the debate may be settled at the IPCC but i am not sure if it was ever open in the first place.

Politics is more stagecraft than science, they refer to themselves as actors on the stage not scientists in the lab

You would do your supporters and constituents more justice by attacking the reckless policy of Gordon Brown when he was chancellor for fueling unsustainable house price inflation and making our country to most indebted country on earth through the credit binge with recklessly low interest rates and high public borrowing, fueling a credit frenzy which will all end in tears for us all for decades to come?

Why do the conservatives not highlight this madness? One can only assume that David Camarons fine party have mewed and brought numerous BTL properties and are also afraid that if the Titanic (UKPLC) hits the iceberg soon, then they have much to lose?

The British banking system is insolvent and Britain is a lost power, in the next few years with peak oil and Gas upon us, the old empire would have truly sailed into the sunset for the very last time, never to return again, i just hope that a tory government does not have to control the unruly masses, and that it happens on Crash Gordon’s watch.

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Reply: If you read previous pieces on this site you will see I have frequently criticised the former Chancellor for keeping interest rates too low and going on a public sector borrowing binge in recent years. I have commented on Mr Congdon’s shareholding in Northern Rock, which he should have mentioned on TV. I leaned of that after posting my first blog comment on the Newsnight exchanges.

They dont research either supporting climate change or against it. The research is to learn more about whats happening.

Mankind and Monkeys have a common ancestor, were not descended from monkeys.

Im sorry Bobo died, but the idea of the UK or the USA being focused on solar power is laughable. We’re focused on fossil fuel, and should be going to renewables. I think solar hot water is now cheap enough to be viable for homes even in Brtain, Solar Photo Voltaics is still quite expensive. Are you sure Bobo died from water intoxication, apparently that occurs when people dont urinate enough. Seems an odd way for a dog to die. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865

there is no ‘magic’ in life, science just hasn’t got all the causes and all the answers: yet. But I’d keep an eye on Craig Venter’s work in the next few months.

The country is so focused on solar energy that any one who doesn’t support turning the world into a solar array is an anarchist. I fear that by the time our country wakes up it will be too late.

http://www.rockinblues.com/House/solarenergy.htm

On June 26th 2006 my dog BooBoo died from water intoxication because living on solar energy I was unable to keep him cool. When I began to crunch the numbers I documented the fraud that the environmentalists have perpetrated on the American public. I challenge you to read the information I have put together for you. After you read this, make up your mind for yourself and I urge you to write your legislators.

Scientists are very keen to apply their favourite ‘double blind’ testing to anything they disagree with. However, this certainly doesn’t apply to their own consensus conclusion forming.

Take the consensus on climate change and use the analogy that it’s a defendant in a criminal court case. This means the case will have been brought because a majority of police believe it’s guilty. Peer review would mean a jury of police, rather than lay people, would decide if the case was made or not. We would not allow this sort of travesty in our legal system, but many people seem perfectly happy that it’s increasingly the set-up for science.

Given the cases of Prof Roy Meadow and Dr David Southall, I think there’s a good argument that the theories and opinions of doctors and scientists should be treated with a great deal more scepticism.

The race relations industry play exactly the same game. They carve the population up into racial groups and study their achievements in education and the workplace. Except the try to explain differences with political theories, not scientific ones.

On the subject of inoculation I did not have my son inoculated against whooping cough when he was recommended for inoculation as an infant. At the time there were several scare stories about inoculation and the danger of brain damage and I aired on the side of caution. At the age of eleven my son caught whooping cough and had to spend five months off school, unfortunately this coincided with his SATs. My son went through a very traumatic illness which included waking several times each night and retching violently. Fortunately my son made a full recovery, was able to catch up on his studies and is now at university. However it was nontheless a very traumatic period in our lives which I wouldn’t want anyone else to experience. So the question of inoculation is one that certainly needs to be addressed.