It seems the debate is getting a bit testy in the land of watercress sandwiches and doilies*.
“Man-made global-warming hypothesis is dead in the water” says Godfrey Bloom MEP, but it gets better, he points a finger at the chairman and shouts “denier”.
Watch.
h/t to Tom Nelson
* Some people thought I was referring to Belgium. No, I was referring to the EU Parliament in Brussels. I had lunch service there in a roomful of skeptics while Climategate raged in my mind, and I couldn’t say anything until it was verified. I recall the lunch service because it seemed to heighten the surreal situation I found myself in. – Anthony
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The Poloticians in Denial…
Global Warming is Dead…
And the truth being thrown back in the fools faces… Pricless..
Well, he is a UKIP MEP, and they tend to have realistic policies on a lot of things.
I will me more impressed we we see the same from either a Labour or Conservative MEP.
Yee-har!! “Madam, where have you been?” Thanks for that – cheered me up no end.
It’s always fun to throw a label back at someone. It looks like he pitched it a couple times. Cool.
Excellent. At least there is one MEP with a brain.
I think it’s ironic, but rather inappropriate to use the “D” word against alarmists; we should not stoop to their level.
davidxn says:
April 15, 2013 at 7:15 pm
“I think it’s ironic, but rather inappropriate to use the “D” word against alarmists; we should not stoop to their level.”
The problem is they only understand when something they believe in is being smashed into they’re collective faces. It never would have reached this point it they could have been reasoned with in the first place.
I’m smiling broadly after listening to and watching that!
Finally someone has taken my advice to charge the warmist crowd with a denial of reality.
well said!
Looks like the ice is melting on the propaganda ice berg … Oops. Maybe the wrong metaphor. I am assuming his speech got an icy reception at the EU.
Now that was honest speech. Loved it! He could have boiled it down to this: Stupid is as stupid does.
Flashy… but I’m left wondering just how widely distributed it will be…
Who was that man who did the unmasking?
(Trying to make a play on “Who was that masked man?”)
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How did that word; “D—-R” get though the new automated moderation system ?
Oh wait, it was Anthony’s original post, OK then, Carry On….
Cheers, Kevin
Stop at 0:07. The House is almost empty.
Too bad the hall was nearly empty. However Geoffrey Bloom likely chose a quiet time to avoid being shouted down by the large numbers delegates who cannot bear hearing the truth.
The result is a very lovely one minute 23 seconds of video, which can be emailed all over the globe to people who cannot bear hearing the truth. A video is more effective on such people because such people are a bit slower, when watching a video, to stick their fingers in their ears and sing, “la-la-la-la I can’t hear you! la-la-la-la.”
Also the video is effective because some will recognize the setting as the EU parliament, and in some cases these are people who feel the EU parliament is a “better government.” Such people tend to equate patriotism with bigotry, however “internationalism” is a sort of holy golden cow they bow down to lick the hoofs of. To have this brief statement made in such a setting gives it a power it would not have, if it was made by ordinary people on the street, (as they have no respect for ordinary people.)
Lastly, the video, by being only one minute and 23 seconds long, is so short it qualifies as a sound byte. The people who cannot bear hearing the truth have notoriously short attention spans, and cannot attend for anything that takes longer than one minute and thirty seconds to explain.
In other words, Geoffrey Bloom’s ploy seems likely to be highly effective.
Greg House says:
April 15, 2013 at 7:47 pm
“Stop at 0:07. The House is almost empty.”
Which is typical for this type of meeting… after all the debate is settle they just have these things to put them “on the record” and as an excuse to get paid.
davidxn says:
April 15, 2013 at 7:15 pm
I think it’s ironic, but rather inappropriate to use the “D” word against alarmists;
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Communication works best when you speak the language of the listener.
“Danke!” I like it.
This video makes me happy.
This is the sort of intensity we need on the skeptics side of the debate (even though I really don’t like that he used the “d” word)
Enough coddling of the CAGWers & their alarmist cause.
The Times They Are A-changin’ ……and The Economist, NYT, BBC (a little bit, but still…). I think we are beginning to see evidence of general depression and a propensity for skulking about amongst the once feted and acclaimed CAGW proponents. The Guardian’s recent article on the melting of Arctic ice being the reason for the 5 cold winters in a row in the UK (and elsewhere – see global temp flatlining) is the kind of thing said unthinkingly in red-faced embarrassment when you know everyone knows you are dissembling:
“Scientists link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss” (because of global warming!!!!)
Look at the picture!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss
Connie and the carbon lobby are trying to artificially inflate the price of carbon in the UE in order to save the bacon of many invested “friends” and keep justifying European programs among them carbon capture. Just like in Canada, Oxford educated economist Diana Fox, wife of Mark Carney, present director of the Bank of Canada and futur director of the Bank of England is trying to “sell carbon pricing to Canadians”.