Climate Change Denial Bollox

Recently, David Bellamy, of all people, has been quoted as saying that contrary to almost all scientific evidence, 555 of the world's 625 monitored glaciers have been expanding, rather than shrinking.

This has been seized on by climate change deniers as 'evidence' that climate change is not happening. Unfortunately, when the claims were investigated by George Monbiot of the Guardian (follow the link in the headline), he found them to be based on the work of Professor Fred Singer, whose source for the data was "a paper published in Science in 1989". There was no paper on glacial advance or retreat published in Science in 1989. The sources - iceagenow.com and 21st Century Science and Technology - cited by David Bellamy are renowned for their bizarre theories - such as the one about the British Royal Family running an international drugs syndicate.

Bellamy made one more error in his work - when typing, he meant to type 55% of the 625 glaciers rather than 555 of the 625. Makes quite a difference, though in the words of the World Glacier Monitoring Service, "[Bellamy's work] is complete bullshit".

Sadly, David Bellamy's comments carry weight, and his careless - and plain wrong! - words are being taken up by those who continue to deny the mountain of evidence of climate change.