An excellent letter in today's Telegraph making the point that the collection of fruitloops supporting the AGW theory generates an instinctive scepticism on the subject:
SIR – With Copenhagen just days away, the problem with the man-made climate change question for a genuine "don't know" like me is that there does not seem to be any credible authority which is independent and devoid of self-interest that I can listen to and trust.
The issue seems to have been hijacked by the same group of sincere weirdos, hand-wringing do-gooders, bandwagon celebrities and anarchists whom I so clearly recall from days gone by at Aldermaston, Greenham Common, and the Newbury by-pass. They too claimed to be trying to save the planet from impending doom.
Then there is the climate-change industry of vote-grabbing politicians, media folk and scientists who clearly have a deeply vested interest in talking the whole thing up, in order to gain power or pay their mortgages.
In the face of this I tend to gravitate, out of sympathy, towards the much vilified man-made-climate-change sceptics – but that is perhaps an emotional reaction. Who can I trust to give me facts I can understand and tell me the truth?
Philip Derbyshire
Brampton, Northamptonshire
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