In our stupidity we have entrusted computers with the job of forecasting our future. But since this is impossible the machine-minders in their grey suits and white coats have been busy inventing new fears and forecasting imminent disasters to back-up their own self-seeking wild-eyed prophesies.

In half an hour our nuclear reactor in the sky a hundred million miles away showers our back gardens with enough power to keep everyone in energy for a year.

Behind the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions was a UN report claiming a scientific consensus that global warming is real, damaging, man-made and caused by burning fossil fuels…economical with the actualité the latest draft of IPCC’s next climate change report removes the phrase ‘caused directly or indirectly by human activity’ and replaces it with fluffy wording about ‘any change over time whether due to natural variability or human activity’. This is tantamount to admitting that Kyoto is based on a pack of lies or…more charitably…on a case which is unproven.

We are told that 99% of the earth's atmosphere has no insulating properties and only Carbon Dioxide keeps the earth at an even temperature. But insulation theory tells us that the secret of effective insulation is still air.

Then there are sea levels…whatever that means in spherical geometry. Sea levels don’t rise and fall they move around. Twice daily the sea surrounding my houseboat goes up and down six feet and then drains away leaving me high and proud on the mud.

Meanwhile the waters of my local North Atlantic Ocean swirl around like water in a cooking basin. A planet moving through space at speed produces tides and currents in its oceans.

Untold billions of pounds is being siphoned off to utility bosses, jerry builders, crooked politicians and bloated bankers on the back of fraudulent prospectuses. Only our House of Peers and the Audit Commission puts up any token resistance.

The claim that nuclear power can solve the problem of rising sea levels is humbug. Rising sea levels make nuclear plants unfeasible because all the existing sites would be six fathoms deep. Feasibility studies will need two contradictory sets of predictions. One lot for building new plants and another to prove they will be safe for 100 years. Ignorant is a polite way to put it.

How much energy will it take to make and move all that construction concrete around and pump those billions of gallons of cooling water to the steam kettles high on the Yorkshire Moors…on the off chance oceans overrun the coastal plains 100 years hence? The Nuclear Energy account will be millions of gigawatts in the red…and rising…before any nuclear plant opens for business.

It makes more sense to shut down existing plants, drape black roofing felt over them and run a few hundred miles of water-filled copper coils on top of them. Atomic power that was Too Cheap To Meter in the 1950s is Too Expensive In Energy today. But the root of the problem lies elsewhere…in our 19th century piped energy mentality.

The national piped energy grids…electricity, oil, gas and hydrogen…must be dismantled. Water leaks can be plugged by replacing broken pipes. But leaking energy is what electricity grids do, leaking oil is what oil pipelines do eventually. And who needs to strap explosives round their waist when gas pipelines criss-cross the country.

Each town and every county, each village and every urban parish needs to disconnect from the national piped energy grids. But to ask the nuclear, oil, electricity, hydrogen and utility industries to take the initiative is like expecting turkeys to vote for Christmas.

My investment tip is companies making black roofing felt and firms recycling copper piping from the telephone cables made redundant by glass fibre optics.

A hundred years ago the world’s leading Economic Geographer predicted that the politics of the 20th Century would pit Locality against Interests. Locality has been losing heavily. There are no adequate theories of locality and the wealth of villagers. There are no examples of viable self-sufficient Village States. The Napoleons of Notting Hill are ridiculed. The Good Life for all the community…real people in real places…never makes it through the planning jungle. Without viable alternatives outside interests will continue riding roughshod over local people.

Countervailing power needs harnessing to stop the scientific juggernaut of the Political-Legal-Media (PLM) complex and its Big Banks, Big Industry and Big Government (BIG-BIG) backers.

The interests of Homecomers are not those of the Onward and Upward brigade…to use the terms coined by E.F.Schumacher 40 years ago to explain the idea of an Intermediate Technology Development Group. A coalition of Gentlemen Scientists and Royal Scientific Societies needs to reclaim The Idea of Science.

The Dodgy Climate Dossiers provide the opportunity. The task of the Human Scale Movement is to represent the inside interests of real people in real places, to design models for right livelihood in the towns and in the countryside.

The movement must furnish Local Fronts with the tools and recipes to bypass the moneylenders and traders and invest in their own solutions to their own problems.

Control of Science must pass out of the dead hands of Interests and flow into the life-giving care of Locality.

Another Schumacher innovation…the Soil Association…shows us the way forward. The Human Scale Movement…the champions of locality over outside interests…must put our own mark on scientific research so that ordinary people can discriminate between Good Science and Bad Science just as the Soil Association Mark enables them to distinguish between Good Food and Bad Food.

But as the Organic Movement has discovered this is necessary but not sufficient. A loose-knit world-wide organisation that academics, scientists and activists can join is also needed.

Over the past 40 years the Organic Movement has developed recipes that a Real Science Movement can adopt. The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) is a new form of organisation that is neither trade association nor special interests lobby group but a functional democratic confederation of individuals and small societies who share a mutual interest in Good Food, Good Soil and Good Farming. This is what the Real Science Movement needs.

Internally IFOAM provides space for inside interests to resolve their differences and grapple with their mutual problems. Externally IFOAM supplies the ambassadors and the diplomatic function that Good Food interests needs to negotiate effectively with Global Agribusiness. Just as food is too important to be left to the Agriculture Industry, science is too important to be left to the Science Business.

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