FACTSHEET: David Bellamy
DETAILS
British botanist and author
Fraser Institute, press conference speaker
Bellamy recently joined a newly formed climate “skeptic” organization calling itself "The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition." The chairman of the NZ Coalition is Rear Admiral Jack Welch, a retired member of the New Zealand
Navy. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10406591
A well known British botanist and environmentalist
KEY QUOTES
9 July, 2004
Global Warming? What a load of poppycock! - Title of Bellamy's July 9, 2004 letter to the Daily Mail
Source: Daily Mail (July 9, 2004)
9 July, 2004
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare version - is a myth.
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.
...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...
carbon dioxide is not the dreaded killer 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 would be no green plants at all.
The link between the burning of fossil fuels and global warming is a myth.
Source: Daily Mail (July 9, 2004)
KEY DEEDS
31 January, 2007
Featured speaker at the press conference for the Fraser Institute 2007 Independent Summary for Policymakers
Source: Fraser Institute website (2007)
DEEDS
29 May, 2005
In a letter published in the New Scientist, April 2005, Bellamy claimed that a large percentage of the world’s glaciers were advancing (555 of 625), not retreating.
On May 29, 2005, Bellamy wrote a letter to the Sunday Times, that his figures were wrong and that he had “decided to draw back from the debate on global warming.”
Source: Times Online (UK) (2005)
KEY EVENTS
Fraser Institute Press Conference 2007 Independent Summary for Policymakers
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?sNav=nr&id=781
The relationship of David Bellamy to the event: Featured Speaker
ORGANIZATIONS
Fraser Institute
Source: Fraser Institute website (2007)
International Climate Science Coalition
Source: ICSC list of who's who
SOURCES
Fraser Institute website (2007)
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/
Daily Mail (July 9, 2004)
Global Warming? What a load of poppycock! by David Bellamy, Daily Mail July 9, 2004
http://www.stopcambridgewindfarm.org.uk/documents/Daily%20Mail%20--%20Bellamy%20on%20Global%20Warming.htm
Times Online (UK) (2005)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1631977,00.html
ICSC list of who's who
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=28