In search of the truth
I feel there is something fishy, something decidedly wrong with the David Aaronovitch piece in the Times this morning. But it is far too early for me to exactly put my finger on his argument that we should not expect politicians to listen to us, but rather to do what is right. There is something of the elitist about the concept that we do not know what is right or that we need the people we elect to ignore our wishes and probably the mandate, on which they were elected, for our own good. The question that immediately springs to mind is if they are not going to listen to the people who vote for them and pay their wages, then who exactly are they going to be informed by, pressure groups or NGOs or other special interest groups, or perhaps the scientists?
If the latter, would that include the ICCP which has become a major political pressure group in its own right and is in any case a political movement run by politicians, one moreover that distorts science in pursuit of it own agenda any case. The question that the earth is warming due to mans actions is one that has been used by politicians as a vehicle to enable them to increase our taxes, yet if the earth was really warming what are the doing with all that extra tax revenue to meet the forecast repercussions and should they be doing anything at all, if the science behind the ICCP reports is only one view of the reality and it completely ignores any science which contradicts the main argument, and even ignores studies that disproves the arguments it uses to predict the horror scenarios the whole concept is based on.
If our leaders are to be freed from listening to the people, then is it not to be expected of them to at least base their decisions on something approaching the truth, rather than on which group can exert the most media and political pressure for its cause. The truth about global warming is hard to find in the plethora of information and misinformation that surrounds the subject. You can either accept the Al Gore version of the truth, this seems to be the one most favoured by the political and media establishment or you can look at other proof that contradicts the arguments.
