The Green Agenda: A Business Guide

CHAPTER 3: ECO-DISASTER: THE SCEPTICS

While the Green Agenda dominates Western environmental debate, has a high public profile and claims to represent the settled, consensus view of the worldwide scientific community, there are a number of counter-arguments which suggest that the consensus is not as consensual as is usually represented. These counter-arguments are expressed in, or by:

• The sunspot theory;

• The Skeptical Environmentalist;

• The UK television Channel 4 programme, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’;

• The work of the Danish National Space Center;

• The opposition of the developing world;

• Accusations of alarmism;

• Identification of inconsistent record keeping;

• Special pleading.

The sunspot theory

A sunspot is defined ...