Dr Bellamy announced in 2004 that global warming is ‘poppycock’.

For the dodgy sources, which Dr Bellamy used for his much-repeated opinions on climate change, I recommend a video clip from the Channel 4 News, on 10 May 2005, where Dr Bellamy debated glacier melt and climate change with the environmentalist journalist George Monbiot.

Just key in ‘Monbiot Bellamy Are the glaciers melting?’ into Google to find the video.

The Maldives, the island nation threatened by rising sea level as a result of global warming, is, unlike Dr Bellamy, NOT in denial.

It announced this week that it will become the world’s first carbon-neutral country in 10 years’ time.

5 other countries (Costa Rica, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand and Monaco) have also signed up to a UN-backed plan to become zero net emitters of carbon dioxide, but with slightly less ambitious targets.

As global warming is THE most important issue facing humanity, and the scientific consensus that it is happening and that mankind is exacerbating it is simply overwhelming, it would be interesting to hear whether Dr Bellamy has changed his mind over this issue.

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Perhaps you are right, Mr Medicot, though you would be wrong to say that I ‘don’t like’ Dr Bellamy.

It’s perfectly possible to disagree with people you like, isn’t it?

As a kid I found Dr Bellamy absolutely imspiring.

His willingness to stand in front of bulldozers to protect the natural world made him a hero in my eyes.

I saw him speak in London at a United Nations Association meeting just before the UN Earth Summit in 1992, and U still remember his call for a ‘green roar’ to protect biodiversity.

However, I do feel that his activism since 2004 has been unhelpful on extremely importand issues like climate change.

If a public figure known for his counter-scientific views on climate change is opening a public event in Shropshire, then surely it is legitimate to point that out to encourage some sort of debate about it.

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