Melanie Phillips spouting nonsense

You can always rely on Melaine Philips to provide the Daily Mail's point of view. She was on the Moral Maze recently discussing Global Warming and arguing

the key claims supporting the theory wwre [sic] being demolished

She admitted she was a journalist not a scientist, but then proceeded to argue against the one scientist in the room. A full breakdown of her argument is available here on her site, and the BBC moral maze is here.

It angers me greatly that people who have no understanding of the issue feel they can wade in and cite studies erroneously giving themselves the veneer of credibility.

Science is meant to be continually challenged, and dissent from the mainstream is all well and good. However, as Monbiot eloquently pointed out, if ten thousand scientists support one view and seven disagree, it would be grossly irresponsible to ignore the ten thousand.

As the Government's chief scientist advisor has said:

Climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today

The most severe problem.

If ten thousand astronomers told you a meteorite was likely to hit earth killing thousands of people, and seven said they disagreed, what would you do? If you are Melanie Phillips you would only listen to the the few that supported your view of doing nothing, and ridicule those who did not agree.

She seems obsessed with the idea that the mainstream media (which she refers to as the MSM) is a liberal elite shutting out her views. I would agree that the media does often show a limited range of permitted views, and indeed strongly agree with Noam Chomsky's propaganda model.

But sometimes you have to realise that your views are not widely expressed because nobody believes them. And in this case, her belief that global warming does not merit any serious attention is a nonsensical view unsupported by any serious thought.