Some Inconvenient Untruths: Iain Dale Throws Complete Paddy at Dave/id Cameron Over Al Gore

Iain Dale thinks it is a disgrace that Al Gore has been invited to address the Shadow Cabinet.

I'm not quite sure why Iain has gone quite so entirely for the half-baked rhetoric of a Channel 4 programme over the half-baked ruling theory rhetoric it is trying to face down. It is all half-baked.

And as Mark Twain might have said:

"The wonderful thing about popular environmental science is the huge return of speculation one gets for such a very small investment of fact"

Neither top science nor top journalism from either side. Whoever is more right there are very good reasons to:

- use less fossil fuels and raw materials
- reduce, reuse and recycle
- strive for improved air quality
- bring forward viable emergent technologies
- rethink national/international grid meme

This last is now looking disastrous with up to 90% of energy lost in distribution over huge distances. Let's tell China and India and Africa about that rather than expecting them to settle for poverty.

For those of a more socialist persuasion than Iain Dale there is also the idea of resisting the domination of our world by huge corporations and by USA pollies who are brown-nosed and green-eyed rather than in the slightest bit green.

If you're looking out for armageddon in the middle east the month after next to bring forward the second coming then basically screw the planet and fuck the poor are corrollaries. What is that warm fuzzy term those Bushy churchies use for the end of the world scenario they are working towards? Thanks to a Doctor of Divinity (comments): the word is Rapture.

Meanwhile air transport may be in effect one of the least viable areas at the moment for real environmental improvements. Though New Labour are appearing to buy the overall received wisdom at the moment they don't buy knee jerk and unilateral attacks on air travel. But Cameron and Campbell seem to do so. For the moment.

Devils Kitchen discusses this. And BNP (or UKIP?) Verity's comment at Iain's site includes this:

I cannot believe all this hysteria. Remember "global cooling" 20 years ago? Remember Ehrlich's "population bomb"? Remember "we only have enough oil to last for 20 years - ooh, err!"? These scary scenarios (scary if you were 10 years old at the time) all come from the same source - the one-worlder, anti-progress, anti-democracy, command economy Marxists.

Unlikely. Anti-gore vid links also here. And here's another Gore-baiting Flash movie: