British Upper-Class "Intellectual" Matt Ridley on why Man-Made Global Warming (AGW) is BS for now, and why Christian BIBLE is Crap

British Upper-Class ''Intellectual'' Matt Ridley on why in his uninformed POV Man-Made Global Warming (AGW) is BS for now, and why in his informed mind the Christian BIBLE is Crap

QUESTIONS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES. Matt answers, excerpts: nytimes.com

The last book that made you furious?

Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” It uses all the tricks of a fire-and-brimstone preacher to sell a message of despair and pessimism based on a really shaky, selective and biased understanding of the science of climate change.

 

 

 

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If you could require President Obama [Prime Minister Cameron] to read one book, what would it be?

[You mean] the UK prime minister? “The Hockey Stick Illusion,” by Andrew Montford. It’s a great piece of detective work on a key scientific blunder, based around the work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, and it forensically dismantles the mistakes that led to people believing they had at last found evidence that current climate change is unprecedented in rate or scale in this millennium. It may yet prove to be so in the future, but it is not so yet.

 

Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel you were supposed to like, and didn’t?

Easy. The Bible. Not even the fine translations of William Tyndale, largely adopted by King James’s committee without sufficient acknowledgment, can conceal the grim tedium of this messy compilation of second-rate tribal legends and outrageous bigotry.