Hopkins The Climate Change Denier - Not So Clever After All

Jim Hopkins is by far the worst Herald columnist. Not just because of what he writes about, but because of the way he writes. He delights in word plays and bad puns, and no doubt thinks he's a jolly clever chap. After all, anyone who wears red-rimmed glasses must be a hoot. If only what he wrote was remotely readable.

When I say he's the worst, I confirm I took into consideration the aged Garth George. Garth may be the ultimate curmudgeon, and you could well imagine if you were a child he'd be the grumpy old man chasing you off his lawn with a stick, but Garth George at least writes well. The same cannot be said of Hopkins.

And if you manage to survive the avalanche of alliteration and wade through the morass of puns, what do you get for your troubles? This week another done of climate change denial.

Because Hopkins is such a clever chap, he ought to know more than the scientists, rights?

The most compelling proof Hopkins is delusional is his claim that the media has ignored "evidence" climate change data has been falsified.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, there is only silence; a cruel weapon in private and even more inexplicable in public, particularly when it is the fourth estate's response to an extraordinary story.

Silence being the literally hundreds of newspaper articles over the last few months? In fact, chances are if you read anything in a newspaper on climate change, it's probably about those damned leaked emails and "falsified" data.

And if there is only silence in the media, how is it that Hopkins' article has been published? (though pray to God it had not been)

The vast majority of climate scientists continue to tell us we are responsible for global warming.

So shall we take the experts' word for it, or should we instead listen to a guy in red-rimmed glasses who admits to reading the Daily Mail?