In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate
summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said
Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using
climate change to increase taxes. He said carbon dioxide has had
no impact on temperature and that recent warming was part of the
natural cycle of climate stretching over billions of years. If
you have to argue your science by using fraud, your science is
not valid. Prof Plimer - author of Heaven and Earth: Global
Warming, The Missing Science - told a London audience: “Climates
always change. They always have and they always will. They are
driven by a number of factors that are random and cyclical.” His
comments came days after a scandal in climate-change research
emerged through the leak of emails from the world-leading
research unit at the University of East Anglia. They appeared to
show that scientists had been massaging data to prove that
global warming was taking place The Climate Research Unit also
admitted getting ri