Global Warming and Other Bollocks Book
A couple of UK scientists have gone on record in book form to denounce popular "scare stories" about the environment and human health. 
A new book Global Warming And Other Bollocks: The Truth About All Those Science Scare Stories, by professor of anaesthetics at London University, Stanley Feldman, and Vincent Marks, a former professor of clinical biochemistry and dean of medicine at the University of Surrey, are questioning some of the doomsday proclamations made about climate change, healthy living and other hot topics.
The book examines the "facts" behind global warming, the future of polar bears, and healthy lifestyle wreckers like salt and Turkey Twizzlers, among others.
Among their claims:
- Polar bears are not going to go extinct. The pair of scientists claim that polar bear populations are not declining, but in fact growing in spite of their loss of habitat.
- Humans are not to blame for global warming. Feldman and Marks point to the sun being the CO2 culprit, arguing that the sun's heat has simply intensified.
- Global warming might be good for us. The duo say a warmer climate and an increase in CO2 could be good for farming and agriculture.
- Organic food is not better for you. The anti-organic pair say plant nutrients comes from the air in the form of CO2, and from water-soluble chemicals in the soil. By the time organic foods reach your plate, it is all the same.
- There is no need to cut back on salt. The soon to be under fire scientists posit that salt is good for us, and we need it to control our body temperature - a person with low salt can cause overheating, and in extreme cases, death.
Set to publish on July 8, the Global Warming And Other Bollocks authors
maintain that the end of the world is not, in fact, nigh. They claim
that "the idea that we are one step from calamity is as old as history
itself. Every step on the road of progress has always been countered by
those who think that we should keep to a primitive lifestyle that they
claim is compatible with nature."
Can't wait to watch the controversy unfold as climate change activists and non-believers butt heads over the controversy.