A greenie recants... this is a must read...

....and a courageous confession from George Monbiot ...(who in the past was scathingly referred to as George Moonbeam by his many detractors.) Monbiot writes in the left-leaning UK Guardian...

Over the last fortnight I've made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice...I began to see the extent of the problem after a debate last week with Helen Caldicott. Dr Caldicott is the world's foremost anti-nuclear campaigner. She has received 21 honorary degrees and scores of awards, and was nominated for a Nobel peace prize. Like other greens, I was in awe of her. In the debate she made some striking statements about the dangers of radiation. So I did what anyone faced with questionable scientific claims should do: I asked for the sources. Caldicott's response has profoundly shaken me...Failing to provide sources, refuting data with anecdote, cherry-picking studies, scorning the scientific consensus, invoking a cover-up to explain it: all this is horribly familiar. These are the habits of climate-change deniers, against which the green movement has struggled valiantly, calling science to its aid. It is distressing to discover that when the facts don't suit them, members of this movement resort to the follies they have denounced.
We have a duty to base our judgments on the best available information. This is not only because we owe it to other people to represent the issues fairly, but also because we owe it to ourselves not to squander our lives on fairytales. A great wrong has been done by this movement. We must put it right. Read the full article here...

Ignore for a moment the passing reference to climate change deniers. This article kicks away one of the founding principles of the green political movement. It exposes the hypocrisy, disinformation and outright lying that we have known about for so long, but which has been ignored and countenanced by a green sympathetic and sycophantic news media. Not since the release of the climategate tapes has the green movement been so publicly shamed, exposed and humiliated. This expose is another very significant nail in the green coffin. It's well worth following the link above to the original debate between Monbiot and Caldicott to get a flavour of the exchange which led to Monbiot's column...Pass this link around !

Note too, that this is not the first time that Monbiot has done a public about face...

“This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More to the point, it has opened my eyes to some fascinating complexities in what seemed to be a black and white case...read more re Monbiot's reviewed position on veganism, here...

...and here, YouTube explains global warming panic...