Junk science

George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, dissects the origin of some bizarre comments made by David Bellamy about climate change.

On April 16, New Scientist published a letter from the famous botanist David Bellamy. Many of the world's glaciers, he claimed, "are not shrinking but in fact are growing ... 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have been growing since 1980". His letter was instantly taken up by climate change deniers.
Monbiot shows that Bellamy's numbers are wrong, born of an ex-archlet's imaginings and, apparently, Bellamy's slip on a keyboard!
The article also appeared in this week's (May 20-26) copy of the Guardian Weekly, which also includes an interesting article on Carbon Credits (Contraction and convergence) by Larry Elliott