I graduated in 1979 with a honours degree in Biological Sciences and have worked in medical research ever since. I am a co-author on a number of peer reviewed publications and a chapter in the 1996 edition of 'Genetic Predisposition to Cancer.'My wife and I are members of the Border Collie Trust, and I am a member of The Bumblebee Conservation Trust. We enjoy caravanning and walking our Border Collie-Saluki cross (we call him a 'Colluki'), who attracts so many admirers that I decided to give 'Shadow' his own weblog. I joined the ABD in 2003 after finding the ABD website whilst looking for information to use in a debate on speed cameras in my local paper. I live in Staffordshire, close to the border with Warwickshire, and work in Birmingham, hence my interest in all 3 areas as an ABD local co-ordinator. Any news of interest is posted on my ABD Mercia weblog. My involvement in the global warming debate is due to the 2003 BBC Horizon programme called 'The Big Chill', which convinced me that the Gulf Stream would be cut off very soon, and give Britain a climate like Alaska. Subsequently, as a result of reading climate science publications, I found this to be unlikely or impossible. The more I read, the more it became obvious to me that alarmism about the magnitude and effects of 'global warming' are being used to further agendas largely unrelated to the environment. I became ABD Environment spokesman and a Director in 2008. I run a weblog called Climate Research News where I publicise the latest research that is ignored by the mainstream media in favour of climate alarmism. |
