From Pierre Gosselins “No Tricks Zone”, some encouraging news; the French have surrendered to common sense.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pulled the plug on the French prestige project, a super ministry of environment, dubbed “Medad” (Ministère du Développement durable). This piece of good news is brought to us by German warmist website klimaretter.de here in a piece written by Susanne Götze in Paris.
Gone with Medad are its director Jean-Louis Borloo, and with him, the last hope for a real breakthrough in environmental and climate policy in France. As a result, no one believes the CO2 tax promised by Sarkozy 2 years ago has any chance today. Good riddance.
Read the full story here: Great News! Sarkozy Kills French Super Environment Ministry “Medad”
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Common sense will always prevail. Thankfully for democracy, and amore educated public. Gone are the days of ” the debate is over, the science is settled ” are history.
Ian
This is like the best bowling match I have seen. So much fun to watch. And we be the bowling ball.
The French have won a resounding victory. It has been a long time coming. Relish it but listen – the drums of war beat yet on the Continent. The climate tyrannists are reforming beyond your borders! You’ve won it for France. Now win again for the EU!
Don’t forget this excellent entry by Pierre: http://notrickszone.com/2010/11/13/d-day-invasion-by-climate-realists-coming/
Just as D-Day occured on the beaches of Normandy France 65 years ago, the first salvo in Climate D-Day is fired in France.
The Disaster in Cancun should be fun to watch….
It’s an interesting, if not definitive, event. Sarko may be floundering, but he is floundering in a different direction to, say, Julia Gillard here in Oz.
The French are odd. They can seem like the most compromising and compromised of peoples, patiently digesting such monstrosities as the EU, the welfare state, PC, and the IPCC – only venting a little frustration by the usual defeatist “raillerie” and empty anglo-bashing. Sometimes you think their national aspiration isn’t Liberty-Equality-Fraternity, but reconciling a belle-epoque lifestyle with a Pyongyang mindset.
That’s what you think.
Then all of a sudden…
Never expected sanity from France! 😉
DaveE.
GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL! It’s the man-made portion of it we have a problem with!
Since we came out of the little ice age and the planet warmed back up again, what portion of the warming was caused by man?
Before I spend $1 trillion/year on climate change, I need to know the mathematical quantified portion of it that man caused. That’s a lot of money to spend on a problem that they refuse to assess the risk on quantitatively. Not one red cent do they get for their perceived problem till I get the indisputable scientific evidence on the matter.
The French are a strange bunch. They pick & choose which EU directives they follow, whilst expecting others, notably the UK, to follow them all.
Our dutiful puppets in Westminster & Whitehall never fail them. They slavishly follow every directive to the letter!
DaveE.
Along with all the rest, this super-ministry was supposedly “responsible for the oceans”?
C’est à rire, as any sane Frenchman would say.
May it be the first in a line of dominoes
Perchance it can now be said that the AGW agenda and its apostles are the ghost that does not know it is dead.
Not too surprising. Sarkozy always tries to serve the interests of his own nation, which is what a national leader is supposed to do.
This makes him absolutely unique among today’s major world leaders; the others are trying to kill their own nations as quickly and painfully as possible.
not so fast with the celebrations:
outrageous BBC cherry-picking from a lengthier David Holland interview:
15 Nov: BBC: Climategate: Sceptic sorry for UEA staff in scandal
(Holland) “I sat in on the select committee hearings – I was shocked,” he said.
“I had never met Phil Jones [unit director] before then. He was certainly suffering greatly from it.
“No-one with any humanity could not feel extremely sorry for the guy and everyone at the University of East Anglia, because there’s a lot of people who had nothing to do with it whose lives will have been interfered with.
“It is a great tragedy for them,” he added…
A year on from the affair, where the UEA was cleared of exaggerating data on global warming but criticised for holding back its research from the public, the centre’s work has been defended and Phil Jones reinstated as director.
“I regret we weren’t as proactively transparent as we might have been, because as the Muir Russell report demonstrated conclusively we had nothing at all to hide,” said Trevor Davies, pro-vice chancellor at the UEA.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_9190000/9190651.stm
16 Nov: Australian (from UK Times): Ben Webster: Climategate scientist Phil Jones regrets emails but stands by global warming conclusions
MANY people “want to be deceived” about climate change because they fear having to sacrifice their lifestyles, according to the “Climategate” scientist..
In his first significant interview since being reinstated at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), Professor Jones said he had been a victim of an attempt to sabotage negotiations on a global climate change treaty…
He said he had recovered from the depression that had led him to contemplate suicide at the height of the controversy, when Sarah Palin and other politicians in the United States accused him of faking his research…
He said some of the doubters would finally be persuaded when the Arctic became ice-free in summer. But others would still believe false claims that this had happened before in the 1920s.
The majority would eventually be won over, but he added: “I don’t know how long it’s going to take. It’s potentially going to take years.”
He said he regretted some of the language in emails “sent in haste”, particularly his reference to a “trick” to “hide the decline” in global temperatures.
An independent inquiry dismissed claims that this was evidence of an attempt to manipulate data…
He admitted that he should not have asked a colleague to delete correspondence but denied deliberately wiping his own emails to prevent them being published under the Freedom of Information Act…
He was particularly critical of George Monbiot, the environmentalist and newspaper columnist who called for his resignation soon after the e-mails were published. “He didn’t retract it for months until after the Muir Russell review [the independent inquiry which exonerated him] came out and even then it was somewhat begrudging. To me it showed he didn’t understand how science was done.”…
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/climategate-scientist-phil-jones-regrets-emails-but-stands-by-global-warming-conclusions/story-e6frg8y6-1225954228600
12 Nov: Washington Times: Dalibor Rohac : As Kyoto plan collapses, Plan B emerges
However, while the climate-change alarmists are slowly becoming aware of the impasse the traditional approach has created, their agenda has not gone away. A number of thinkers from across the political spectrum are progressively gaining influence and are likely to be the ones who will set the tone for climate and energy policies in the years to come.
This rising group is a heterogeneous bunch. It includes Gwyn Prins of the London School of Economics in England, Roger Pielke Jr., author of “The Climate Fix,” and the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg, who is releasing his new movie focused on climate-change policies, “Cool It.” Finally, it includes experts from both the American Enterprise Institute and the liberal Brookings Institution in the United States, who recently published a joint proposal for fostering energy innovation.
This last fact is probably the most disturbing. Whenever the most influential left-wing and right-wing experts agree, the odds are that the matter will involve expanding government and taking resources away from the private sphere…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/12/as-kyoto-plan-collapses-plan-b-emerges/
Here is the letter I sent to FOX news;
What have we accomplished so far?
The big one is the destruction of the world carbon(CO2) tax. The trillion dollar a year market the globalists were planning. We did this without the help of the main stream media. We went over your heads as we are going to do again and again.
The alternative media hammered the likes of ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, and the Huffington Post on the issue of cap and tax. With very little help from FOX on the issue for which we are grateful, the vast majority of the heavy lifting on the issue was done by us. We rode ClimateGate for all it was worth. It helps that real science was on our side.
In the past few weeks, the CCX carbon trading market trading on the Chicago Exchange had to file for bankruptcy. This was a trillion dollar a year market we almost single handedly put to death ourselves. We accomplished this with the blogosphere with sites like Watts Up With That, Climate Depot, Climate Audit, InfoWars, and Prison Planet among others.
Our next biggest accomplishment was laying to waste the establishment Republican party with the disruption we imposed since the primary elections with the ouster of key establishment candidates. Even Christine O’Donnell did her job by helping to get rid of the infamous Mike Castle. That really made the pundits at FOX heads explode. You think you are going to be able to marginalize the Tea Party movement now that the elections are over? Think again. Ron Paul is the father of the Tea Party movement and his principals are still in play.
FOX News Debuts 12 in ’12 Series: Ron Paul Not Featured
Did you think we would not notice?
Now FOX is trying to reconstitute the Republican establishment by circling the wagons around that same old establishment. Just look at the softball coverage of George Bush and his new book. I could write volumes on the criminality of George Bush and his administration, finishing his daddies work to establish the New World Order. The American Police State now spends $50 Billion a year to put under scrutiny the American Citizenry itself. Yes the Department of Homeland Security was established for Americans, not real terrorists. I think I know what this is all about. It’s about the 50 billion and counting. Since the early days of the Continuity of Government program put into place by the Regan administration, the police state industrial complex is now all grown up.
It’s also programs like this doing some of the heavy lifting for us.
JESSE VENTURA’S CONSPIRACY THEORY S02E04 – POLICE STATE, FEMA CAMPS
http://snardfarker.ning.com/video/watch-jesse-venturas?xg_source=shorten_twitter
The lame stream media has become for us a waste of our time. Get on board with us or be marginalized by us, just as the Republican party must do. It’s your choice.
Our next scalp will be the TSA naked body scanners sold by Chertoff and the invasive sexual molestation of our families at their hands. We will put an end to this happy horse crap. Did you know TSA has caught exactly zero would be bombers in their nine year history? This was the biggest news story on Drudge about the TSA all last week and virtually no coverage of it by FOX, and scant coverage by the other networks. That’s because we know who you work for, the military industrial complex, and the globalists, not for real Americans.
Another target of ours is the big banks and we will see if we can crash the likes of JP Morgan by buying up what little silver is left out there. Finally we will lay to waste the most insidious of all institutions, The Federal Reserve. That will be accomplished one way or another.
I just thank God every day for the complete and total economic collapse of The United States of America that is now a mathematical certainty. With the end of the Hamiltonian monetary system, I see this as the final solution if no other way, and that will put an end to all the happy horse crap of the special interests and the oligarchs.
You’re not fooling anyone FOX.
It is unraveling slowly,quietly, surely. This coupled with the trouble with the Euro
PIGS, I see the end of the EU.
PIGS-Portugal,Ireland,Greece, & Spain…
Cancun should be “interesting times”…
Perhaps “Ministry of Sustainable Development” would be a closer translation for that defunct office. Wasn’t exactly all that “sustainable” (durable) was it?
Just more fallout from the US election, Thanks again USA.
Expect more of the same in two more years……
Freeing up the resources they need to govern Ireland.
The Germans get Greece.
As You Know, I have participated in this blog in order to spread truth about climate science, but what you are not aware of, I am also trying to help you see the bigger picture. I try to keep the discussion on my part, to a narrow scope of the topic at hand.
If you don’t mind too much, and I appreciate your audience from time to time, to give you a little more fat to chew on. I maintain that I promise not to be too disruptive of this blog that has accomplished so much.
Now for your entertainment;
Bernanke’s Royal Mess!
I wish Australia was moving in that direction. We have:
Federal Government: DEPARTMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY as well as DEPARTMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENT, WATER, POPULATION AND COMMUNITIES
New South Wales Government: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER
Victoria Government: DEPARTMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Western Australia Government: OFFICE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
And this is not the whole list. God save us from bureaucrats in general, and from climate bureaucrats in particular!
Australia has delayed Carbon Pricing pending a report from our Productivity Comission on what other countries are doing about carbon abatement. This is an excellent model for us to follow – abolish our Dept of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. I must let them know immediately…..Done.
The news is welcome but the beast won’t die. The MSM are still either ignorant of or deliberately blind to the reality that CO2 is not a pollutant and the climate is completely natural.
The AGW brainwashed are not being reached because the news isn’t being broadcast and they are not bothering to inform themselves. Then there are the delusional like our PM. Two months ago 87% voted for parties that were opposed to a carbon tax and now she is desperate to introduce one. She lied to the electorate and yet the MSM allow her to get away with the great scam.
We desperately need part two of “Climategate”.