And his comments on climate change are “absolute garbage”. I suppose being an active fifth column for Trump means that he has to say “garbage” instead of “rubbish”.

Richard Tice can’t do History. The global heating we are currently experiencing is beyond anything that human civilisation has ever had to contend with. The longer term cyclical swings in global climate arising from variations in Earth’s orbit that have been the fundamental drivers of Ice Ages and periods that have been far hotter than today take place over tens of thousands of years are not an explanation for our current period of rapidly increasing temperatures. That can be explored here.

Explore further here. Myth busters 2. Was it really hotter in the Medieval Warm Period?

Richard Tice can’t do Maths. He says that the scientists who agree with him are “not a minority”. The scientific consensus that human activity is generating climate change has the support of 97 – 99% of scientists across the world. However you look at it, 1 – 3% can’t be described as anything other than a minority.

He also says that the costs of dealing with climate change are an insupportable burden. In fact, the costs of not addressing it will be far higher, even if we manage to avoid social collapse.

That can be explored here. Mythbusters #3 “It’s gonna cost you?”  

Richard Tice can’t do science. The basis of science is to pay attention to what you can see going on. His claim that “there is no evidence” for human generated climate change is like a toddler closing his eyes, sticking his fingers in his ears and chanting “la,la,la, I’m not listening”. He and his party are not only out of step with science, but also with popular opinion; not because the rest of us have been brainwashed but because we notice the wildfires and the floods and the increasingly extreme weather, are worried about our childrens futures, and because we are not members of a Party being bankrolled by fossil fuel interests.

He says that the actions of the sun and volcanoes have more effect on climate than greenhouse gas emissions. He does not note that volcanic activity cools the planet*, sometimes severely for short periods, but cannot explain the way that it is heating, nor that current levels of solar activity would also be cooling the planet if left to itself. While natural cycles and events of this sort have heated and cooled the planet even more dramatically than current human activity, these are events that are outside our control, and are not an immediate cause of the global heating we are seeing now, which is down to the burning of vast quantities of fossil fuels. Nor should the impact and velocity of this be minimised. The rate of global heating in the coming decades is projected to be in the order of 65 times the rate during the last deglaciation. We are driving ourselves fast off the map. Whether we drive ourselves off a cliff or not is a matter of choice.

In the immediate period ahead, we are looking to try to save human society from the worst consequences of this, and no political force that abdicates its responsibility to do so should be given the time of day.

Explore further here. Mythbuster 1. “Phew! What a scorcher!” Overheating is good for you?  

There are indeed “experts”, who are telling us we are in serious trouble and need to take urgent action, “vested interests”, like Tice and the Carnival or reactionary grotesques and “swivel eyed anti net zero zealots” at the ARC Convention this week, seeking to “rebuild the foundations of our civilisation” on lies, fantasies and racist paranoia, and “then people who tell the truth” like the IPCC and the climate movement.

Tice and all of those who can’t face the truth are dinosaurs having a last hurrah.

*There is a caveat on this that some extremely large eruptions unleash large quantities of greenhouse gases which can have a significant heating effect.