I have it on good advice that a well known independent thinker, British naturalist and television personality, David Bellamy, will be visiting Australia in April.
The professor will be speaking in Mittagong on April 4 at the invitation of the Royal Society of NSW and as a global warming sceptic.
On the question of scepticism he recently commented, "The first question most people ask me these days are how could all those global warmers have got it so wrong? My answer is to remind them of the millennium bug, the dot com bubble and the credit crunch, together these have caused tens of thousands of the worlds' most highly paid and computer literate people to succumb to a mass hysteria."
On the financial crisis and the power of the consensus another Brit and former Cabinet Secretary (2002-2005), Lord Turnbull has commented it is a collective failure of all sorts of people -- the regulator, the bankers, the economic policy makers.
They had a particular view of the world and the things which should have acted as restraints: the regulators, rating agencies, accounting, corporate governments -- none of that worked, because of the power of consensus.
On global warming and the consensus, former US vice-President, Al Gore has said, "Do you know any credible scientist who says wait a minute -- this hasn't been proven? The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona."
But wait, a man who has actually walked on the moon is now disputing the consensus on global warming. That's right, former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon, doesn't believe that humans are causing global warming. He will speak at a conference of climate change sceptics in New York next month and in preconference publicity said, "I don't think the human effect [on climate] is significant compared to the natural effect".
According to Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer, Charles Mackay (1814-1889), men think in herds, go mad in herds and only recover their senses slowly and one by one.
May there be more sensible men after Professor Bellamy's visit to Mittagong on April 4.
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