English botanist & author (1933-2019)
The truth is, I didn't think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line and I wasn't doing that.
DAVID BELLAMY
"BBC shunned me for denying climate change", Express, November 5, 2008
I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.
DAVID BELLAMY
"The Global Warming Myth", Frontier Centre for Public Policy, November 21, 2007
Global warming -- at least the modern nightmare vision -- is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.
DAVID BELLAMY
Daily Mail, July 9, 2004
Mother nature will balance things out but not if we interfere by destroying rainforests and overfishing the seas. That is where the real environmental catastrophe could occur.
DAVID BELLAMY
"BBC shunned me for denying climate change", Express, November 5, 2008
The idiot fringe have accused me of being like a Holocaust denier, which is ludicrous. Climate change is all about cycles, it's a natural thing and has always happened. When the Romans lived in Britain they were growing very good red grapes and making wine on the borders of Scotland. It was evidently a lot warmer.
DAVID BELLAMY
"BBC shunned me for denying climate change", Express, November 5, 2008
All of the work dried up after that.... I was shunned. They didn't want to hear the other side.
DAVID BELLAMY
The Independent, January 13, 2013
If you were sitting next to me 10,000 years ago we'd be under ice. So thank God for global warming for ending that ice age; we wouldn't be here otherwise.
DAVID BELLAMY
"BBC shunned me for denying climate change", Express, November 5, 2008
I am quite happy to be branded a heretic because throughout history heretics have stood up against dogma based on bigotry.
DAVID BELLAMY
"The Global Warming Myth", Frontier Centre for Public Policy, November 21, 2007
We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.
DAVID BELLAMY
The Telegraph, January 22, 2013
They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.
DAVID BELLAMY
Daily Mail, July 9, 2004
Robust science is carried out in a robust way through reasoned argument based on well researched data and although it may dent the ego of the loser it does not smear the name of science.
DAVID BELLAMY
"The Global Warming Myth", Frontier Centre for Public Policy, November 21, 2007
Name calling may be acceptable in political circles but it has no place in the language of science, indeed what is happening in the annals of global warming smacks of Macarthyism complete with witch hunts.
DAVID BELLAMY
"The Global Warming Myth", Frontier Centre for Public Policy, November 21, 2007
Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.
DAVID BELLAMY
"BBC shunned me for denying climate change", Express, November 5, 2008