Who Would You Trust On Climate Change ? Sir David Attenborough or Professor David Bellamy ?
I grew up in the 80s, 90s and noughties listening to Sir David Attenborough and Professor David Bellamy. I loved listening to them both as they commented on the BBC on all things animals, nature and the environment. The dulcet tones of Attenborough and the distinctive voice and enthusiasm of Bellamy.
Both were media darlings. Attenborough is still considered a British institution or as the younger generation would say “he’s a bit of a legend”.
Bellamy passed away in 2019. He blamed his views on climate change for the downfall of his TV career and said he became a pariah.
Did Bellamy have a point ?
If we have learned anything over the last 2.5 years it’s that if the media engage in “ad-hominem” attacks on individuals then it’s worth examining further. If people’s opinions don’t fit with the global narrative being played out, be it Covid, Ukraine or Climate Change then they are silenced.
Censorship has been rampant on all forms of social media since early 2020. Accounts with thousands or hundreds of thousands of accounts are just deleted at the drop of the hat. Unless you have very deep pockets (like Alex Berenson) and take the social media giants to court, your alternative is to find another platform such as Substack.
Let’s have a look at Attenborough and Bellamy.
Attenborough is now 96 and has done some amazing documentaries such as Natural World, Blue Planet and Planet Earth with the most sensational camera work involved. He has always worked for the BBC for a large chunk of his life and as we know the BBC is primarily a government propaganda channel.
If you want to continue working for them you have to push their agenda without question. One agenda they have been pushing for years is Climate Change. The BBC has also accepted substantial funding (more than £50 million) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Interestingly Attenborough is also a member of the World Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/david-attenborough
Attenborough also has some rather interesting takes on population growth. In 2013 he stated “Humans are a plague on the Earth” and said that “We must limit our population growth or nature will do it for us”
He said population growth is “out of control”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24303537
Attenborough is also a patron of “Population Matters” and said
“All of our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people, and harder – and ultimately impossible – to solve with ever more people.”
Interestingly, the Population Matters web site published an article on its site called
CONSPIRACY CHAOS: CORONAVIRUS, BILL GATES, THE UN AND POPULATION
The reason for the article was
“Over the past year, a growing proportion of Population Matters’ website traffic has been driven by rather odd search terms including “Bill Gates depopulation”, “Agenda 2030 population control”, and “depopulation coronavirus vaccine”
They felt they had to set the record straight. Surprise, Surprise. When companies go to such lengths to ‘discredit’ conspiracy theories you can be sure there is an element of truth to what they are trying to discredit.
https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/05/conspiracy-chaos-coronavirus-bill-gates-un-and-population
Attenborough believes that overpopulation is to blame for the climate crisis and negatively impacted the environment. He said in a recent Netflix documentary, “every other species on Earth reaches a maximum population after a time – the number that can be sustained on the natural resources available”.
Is Attenborough really trying to convince us that there are not enough resources available for everyone? When in fact, the problem is not that there are not enough resources for the ever-increasing population, but that the distribution is exploited, creating soaring wealth inequality.
This all seems remarkably familiar and how the World Economic Forum views the world. Dare I even say that it sounds remarkable like Eugenics to me ? There are many different ways to cull populations. Some of these may sound familiar. Vaccinations, Wars, Food Shortage, Energy Crisis. None of these of course would ever be deliberately engineered or would they 😉
What of Bellamy ?
Bellamy fell foul of the establishment in 2005. He had been president of the Wildlife Trusts since 1995 and maintained a view that man-made climate change is "Poppycock", insisting that climate change is part of a natural cycle.
The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts stated in 2005, "We are not happy with his line on climate change” and called Bellamy a “global warming heretic”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wildlife-groups-axe-bellamy-as-global-warming-heretic-lfxq9k5gv95
As of 2022 the Patron Of the Wildlife Trust is Prince Charles and the President Emeritus is David Attenborough.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/how-we-are-run
The same Prince Charles who appeared with Klaus Schwab on the launch of The Great Reset in 2020.
The Wildlife Trust is also firmly in bed with UN Agenda 2030
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/strategy-2030
Bellamy asserted that his views on global warming resulted in the rejection of programme ideas by the BBC and said
‘I was shunned. They didn't want to hear'
He firmly believed that the end of his TV career was caused by his views on climate change.
https://archive.ph/5KeGk (if link above is behind a paywall)
Probably the most famous article by Bellamy was the one he wrote called “What A Load Of Poppycock”. I have reproduced the article beneath the image in its entirety as it can be quite hard to read the text.
Have a read and see if you can find fault with any of Bellamy’s arguments.
What A Load Of Poppycock
Whatever the experts say about the howling gales, thunder and lightning we've had over the past two days, of one thing we can be certain. Someone, somewhere and there is every chance that will be a politician or an environmentalist will blame the weather on global warming.
But they will be 100% wrong. Global warming, at least the modern nightmare version is a myth. I am sure of it, and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policymakers are not.
Instead, they have an unshakable faith in what has unfortunately, become one of the central credos of the environmental movement. Humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide, the principal so called greenhouse gas into the atmosphere causing the atmosphere to heat up.
They say this is global warming. I say this is poppycock. Unfortunately, for the time being it is their view that prevails.
As a result of their ignorance, the world's economy may be about to divert billions, nay trillions of pounds, dollars, and roubles into solving a problem that actually doesn't exist. The waste of economic resources is both incalculable and tragic.
To explain why I believe that global warming is largely a natural phenomenon that has been with us for 13,000 years, and probably isn't causing us any harm anyway, we need to take heed of some basic facts of botanical science.
For a start, carbon dioxide is not the dreaded killer of greenhouse gas that the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the subsequent Kyoto Protocol five years later cracked it up to be. It is in fact the most important airborne fertiliser in the world. And without it, there will be no green plants at all.
That is because as any school child will tell you, plants take in carbon dioxide and water and with the help of a little sunshine, convert them into complex carbon compounds that we either eat, build with or just admire and oxygen, which just happens to keep the rest of the planet alive.
Increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, double it even, and this would produce a rise in plant productivity. Call me a biassed old plant lover, but that doesn't sound like much of a killer gas to me. Hurray for global warming. That's what I say, and so do a lot of my fellow scientists.
Let me quote from a petition produced by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which has been signed by over 18,000 scientists who are totally opposed to the Kyoto Protocol, which committed the world's leading industrial nations to cutting their production of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.
They say “predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in minor greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide are in error and do not conform to experimental knowledge”
You couldn't get much plainer than that. And yet, we still have public figures such as Sir David King, scientific adviser to Her Majesty's Government, making preposterous statements such as by the end of this century, the only continent we will be able to live on is Antarctica.
At the same time, he's joined the bandwagon that blames just about anything on global warming, regardless of the scientific evidence, for example, take the alarm about rising sea levels around the south coast of England and subsequent flooding along the region's rivers. According to Sir David, global warming is largely to blame.
But it isn't at all. It's down to bad management of water catchments, building on floodplains, and the incontestable fact that the south of England is gradually sinking below the waves.
And that sinking has nothing to do with rising sea levels caused by ice caps melting. Instead, it is purely related to an entirely natural warping of the Earth's crust, which could only be reversed by sticking one of the enormous heavy ice caps from past ice ages back on top of Scotland.
Ah, ice ages, those absolutely massive changes in global climate that environmentalists don't like to talk about. Because they provide such strong evidence that climate change is an entirely natural phenomenon.
It was round about the end of the last ice age, some 13,000 years ago, that a global warming process did undoubtedly begin.
Not because of all those Stone Age folk roasting mammoth meat on fossil fuel campfires but because of something called the Milankovitch cycles, an entirely natural fact of planetary life that depends on the tilt of the Earth's axis and its orbit around the sun.
The glaciers melted the ice cap retreated, and Stone Age man could resume hunting again. But a couple of millennia later, it got very cold again and everyone headed south. Then it warmed up so much that water from melted ice, fill the English Channel and we became an island.
The truth is that the climate has been yo-yoing up and down ever since. Whereas it was warm enough for the Romans to produce good wine in York, on the other hand, King Canute had to dig up peat to warm his people. And then it started getting warm again.
Up and down, up and down, that is how temperature and climate have always gone in the past and there is no proof that they are not still doing exactly the same now. In other words, climate change is an entirely natural phenomenon, nothing to do with the burning of fossil fuels.
In fact, a recent scientific paper rather on enticingly titled, “Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the last glacial termination” proved it. It showed that increases in temperatures are responsible for increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, not the other way around.
But this sort of evidence is ignored either by those who believe the Kyoto Protocol is environmental gospel, or by those who know 25 years of hard work went into securing the agreement and simply can't admit that the science it is based on is wrong.
The real truth is that the main greenhouse gas, the one that has the most direct factor on land temperature, is water vapour, 99% of which is entirely natural. If all the water vapour was removed from the atmosphere, the temperature of the planet would fall by 33 degrees Celsius. But remove all the carbon dioxide and the temperature might fall by just 0.3%.
Although we wouldn't be around because without it there would be no green plants, no herbivorous farm animals and no food for us to eat.
It has been estimated that the cost of cutting fossil fuel emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol will be 76 trillion pounds. Little wonder then, that world leaders are worried. So should we all be.
If we signed up to these scaremongers, we could be about to waste a gargantuan amount of money on a problem that doesn't exist. Money that could be used in umpteen better ways. Fighting world hunger, providing clean drinking water, developing alternative energy sources, improving our environment, creating jobs.
The link between the burning of fossil fuels and global warming is a myth. It is time the world's leaders, their scientific advisors and many environmental pressure groups woke up to the fact.
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It is interesting that Bellamy called out Sir David King in his article. King is also in the World Economic Forum.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/david-king
Each and every one of us has a responsibility to do our own research and find out our own truth. What is abundantly clear is that climate change headlines have been ramped up in MSM over the last few years and that the MSM have been economical with the truth. We have seen that with Covid, Ukraine and now Climate Change.
Nobody denies that the climate is changing but it always has and always will. The question surely has to be, is it being used to push agendas. If you are interested in this I highly recommend watching this MSM documentary from Channel 4 in 2007 called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Just like Covid and Ukraine, the documentary points out that agendas are central in climate change with funding and propaganda being highly significant.
We really have to start questioning our own preconceived beliefs as we can’t trust MSM in 2022.
The World Economic Forum have been very clever in using a nations “sweetheart” to further their agenda. Who wants to question and argue against Attenborough, a 96 year old man. The WEF also did the exact same with Greta Thunberg. In this instance they chose a then 16 yr old girl to further their climate change agenda. It isn’t a good look for the attack dogs to go after a teenager. This was no accident choosing the young and the elderly.
Unfortunately, Bellamy has no right of reply as he is no longer with us. Attenborough is definitely the Goliath in the battle of the David’s. In the end though David slew Goliath. The underdog won. Let’s hope the underdog wins in the battle against the World Economic Forum….
This is an excellent article and I heartily endorse your recommendation to watch The Great Global Warming Swindle. It’s a brilliant documentary that explains the science very simply and clearly - it’s not nearly as mysterious and complicated as we’ve been led to believe. I’m trying to get my friends to see the connection between the Covid hoax, media manipulation and all the hysteria about “climate change”. Wish me luck!
Another great article. The article written by Bellamy is excellent and informative.
Climate change is taking place but has always taken place since the beginning of time.
I have read a lot of articles regarding this. It’s not just Bellamy who was silenced. Many others including scientists, head of US agencies, politicians who went against the narrative were removed, their voices silenced.
There was a recent article stating that CNN were about to start a huge scare campaign similar to covid but on climate change.
The western leaders are going to impoverish their country and citizens with trillions spent on CO2 reduction.