- Bishop Hill blog

I'm due to appear at a debate in Glasgow sponsored by UKIP tomorrow. The motion is:

This meeting believes there is no evidence of catastrophic warming remotely as catastrophic as the regulations, taxes and other costs imposed to ameliorate it

Unfortunately, the organisers haven't been able to get anyone to oppose the speakers for the motion - myself, Jim Sillars, and Christopher Monckton. This is not for lack of trying. The list of people who have spurned the opportunity is extraordinary:

All 129 MSPs
All 5 party organisations
SEPA
Scottish Natural Heritage
Scottish Civil Service
The Carbon Trust
NERC (a quango you've never heard of but it gets £500 million a year to promote alarmism & did previously call for a debate)
Scottish Renewables
Renewable UK
Any of the 5,000 RenewablesUK conference attendees, in Glasgow that day to "network" for windmillery "business opportunities"
WWF
Friends of the Earth
Stop Climate Change Scotland (an umbrella organisation covering around 90 other alarmist groups)
Professor Ann Glover (former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Scottish government, now to the entire EU, who once claimed that global warming would increase day length)
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Glasgow University
Strathclyde University
Glasgow Caledonian University
The BBC
Channel 4
Glasgow Skeptics (spelled that way to avoid being confused with sceptics)
The environmental correspondents across the Scottish press.

However, we will be going ahead regardless, so for anyone in Glasgow who wants to attend, the meeting is on the upper floor of Yates. 134-136 West George Street. Tuesday 30th October 7:00pm for a 7.30 start.