The ‘Green Mafia’ have been out in force again recently, trying to pick our pockets of the last few pennies we have left after twelve years of Labour mismanagement, all in the name of the ‘Green’ cause. Well thank heavens for Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, who has written a new book showing that ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction - a ‘first-world luxury’ with no basis in scientific fact.

And the Professor places the ‘Green Mafia’ firmly in their place with one fantastic and withering put down “They’re only interested in the last 150 years. Our time frame is 4,567 million years. So what they’re doing is the equivalent of trying to extrapolate the plot of Casablanca from one tiny bit of the love scene. And you can’t. It doesn’t work”. Top stuff!

I’ve written previous blogs on the folly of believing the ‘Climate Change Con’ and I am always absolutely amazed by the lack of any objectivity in the climate change community. Surely, for something as important as this could potentially be, we need a rational and objective discussion.

We all know that politicians, the media and the liberal chattering classes are wholly unobjective when it comes to hyping up this type of scare story. And yes, unfashionable as it may be to say it, many scientists are not objective either. A popular alarmist cause is one that gets lots of funding - which directly or indirectly pays their wages.

Instead of the usual knee-jerk reactions by media, scientists and politicians shouldn't we be sure of the real facts and causes before committing billions of pounds to combating something that has not been clearly identified. That is insanity and a waste of time, energy and money that could be better spent elsewhere. Don’t expect the facts to be forthcoming though - governments use ‘global warming’ as an excuse for greater taxation, regulation and protectionism; energy companies and investors make a fortune from scams like carbon trading; charitable bodies like Greenpeace depend for their funding on public anxiety and environmental correspondents need constantly to talk up the threat to justify their jobs.

If human-caused climate change is a fact, then the climate change cronies have nothing to fear from an honest investigation. Consequently they have no need to attack those who put forward a dissenting view. Let the facts speak for themselves - but first let's get the facts!