Via Sustainable Redland, news that the Royal College of Physicians is holding a conference on Climate Change. Good grief, what next? The International Panel on Climate Change holding a conference on Bowel Cancer? The Millenarian tendency in the Climate Change community has officially jumped the shark.

A few months ago a rather disreputable film on Climate Change, The Great Global Warming Swindle was shown by Channel 4. It was a poorly done effort, from Martin Durkin who - under the brand name Kugelblitz - has a history of fighting propaganda with propaganda rather than truth.

Durkin is associated with the former Revolutionary Communist Party clique surrounding Frank Furedi, which is at its most visible at the website Sp!ked Online. This group seem to have good intentions, and they're generally espousing an attractive mix of positive humanism and common sense. Indeed, Furedi was one of the better commentators in the documentary Mine Your Own Business, recently exhibited by the Redland Ward Conservatives. But the ex-RCPers also have an instinct to win the battle by any means, even at the expense of losing the war. I can't help thinking "Once a communist; always a communist."

A better critique of Millenarian/Catastrophic Climate Change theory is available here, produced and narrated by Warren Meyer, a small business owner (and therefore someone with a hundred times the moral authority of a journalist or politician). Bit of a large download unfortunately. but you can stream it from here at lower resolution. If I find a torrent tracker I'll post it in the comments.