A PUBLIC lecture in Bude for the Old Cornwall Society will give an impartial geologist’s view of ‘man-made global warming’, which he says will continue for 100 years with sea levels rising about 5m, but claims it is nothing to do with man or CO2.

Dr Roger Higgs, a consultant geologist, will host a public lecture, named ‘Earth’s Warming and the Effects on Sea Levels’ in Bude for the Old Cornwall Society on Monday, October 31, claiming that members of the public should ‘prepare to be shocked’ for what is to be heard.

According to Dr Higgs, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fixation on man-made global warming has convinced much of the society that ‘greenhouse gas’ CO2 is a pollutant, when in fact, it is the basis of all life, namely plant food.

Dr Higgs says that among the 255 volunteer scientific authors of the IPCC reports, there are no geologists — the very scientists who know that global temperatures and sea levels have always varied, and that even in past interglacial periods, sea levels fluctuated by several metres, at peak rates of rise of at least 2cm/y, so there is ‘no reason to suppose the present interglacial is any different’.

Dr Higgs said: “CO2 is a global warming product, emitted by warming oceans. CO2 can’t be both product and cause of warming, or runaway feedback would occur. In any case, the medieval warming and higher sea levels long predated any industrial CO2 emissions, so what was the cause?

“My impartial literature survey implicates the inconstant sun, supporting the view of many other independent scientists.”

Dr Higgs has said that earth is predicted to cool from 2020 to 2055, then warm until a 2108 peak. It is expected that sea level will fall from 1990 until 2025, and then rise for five decades, peaking in 2078, just 62 years away.

The lecture will take place on Monday from 7.30pm at the Parkhouse Centre, Bude.

To find out more about the event, visit www.oldcornwall.net/bude-stratton-ocs/4576038861.