Nigel Lawson (1932–2023)
Autor(a) de An Appeal to Reason
About the Author
Obras por Nigel Lawson
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Baron Lawson of Blaby
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-03-11
- Data de falecimento
- 2023-04-03
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- University of Oxford (Christ Church)
- Ocupações
- politician
climate change denier - Relações
- Lawson, Nigella (daughter)
Lawson, Dominic (son) - Organizações
- Conservative
UK Parliament
The Spectator
Standpoint [magazine] - Prémios e menções honrosas
- PC
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 175
- Popularidade
- #122,547
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
- Línguas
- 4
Mr Lawson seems to argue that, far from being a bad thing, if we could only pump a few more pollutants into the atmosphere, all the World's problems would be solved. Whether this is solving problems in the same way as the man who fits a pipe to the exhaust of his car, is not specified.
Ironically, the only time that I had any sympathy with this specious argument, was upon the topic of press coverage. I must confess that, whenever we have a sunny day and the press scream - "This is an effect of Global Warming!" I turn into Nigel Lawson: otherwise, we all know this to be tosh.
Mr Lawson, either through ignorance, or as I suspect, wilfullness, misunderstands the scientific term, 'theory'. He treats this to mean a wild guess, a baseless assumption. In a statement that reeks of paranoia, he seriously suggests that global warming is a government scare story. We need a big bad wolf and, after nuclear destruction in the sixties and World population in the nineties, this is the latest red herring. Not bad, in little more than a sentence, the author has denied three of the greatest threats to human kind. Is he really saying that the proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly in the Middle East, is not a concern? The recent birth of the 7 billionth living human with projections of 10 billion by 2050, are a propaganda ploy? Apparently, yes! What is this man on, and may I have some?
This book is only just over 100 pages long but I had real difficulty in completing it because, in a situation that is very rare, I could discern no value whatsoever from this work. On reflection, perhaps a copy should be given to every sceptic - reading this will convince them that something is awry.… (mais)