One thing about British politicians, they tend to deliver fiery speeches. Here’s one just like that. He must have had some experience with an MP bench position in London.
This is from the European Parliament, Strasbourg – 20.01.2010
► Debate: Council and Commission statements – Outcome of the Copenhagen summit on climate change
Speaker: Godfrey Bloom MEP, UKIP (Yorkshire & Lincs.), EFD group. Watch the video:
Credits:
Video: European Parliament Audio Visual
I should add that I don’t agree with everything said here, and I’m unsure what he is claiming about the NZ database. I posted this purely for entertainment purposes. – Anthony
h/t to Pierre Gosselin
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Thanx for the h/t!
In case you are all wondering what motivated him to use the “scarecrow” term,
I think I’ve discovered the reason (i.e. Finnish tree-hugger):
The groundswell of popular opinion is growing. The upstate returns aren’t in yet, but I hope we are seeing the beginning of the end.
I am off to the college to teach the most recent of my anti-global warming lectures – same as each of the previous ten years.
I’m just speculatin with the “scarecrow” motivation.
She doesn’t look THAT bad, I think. Does she?
Her hair just needs a little work.
I liked it.
He is a bit too reserved though.
@Dave, UK
Thanks for the clarification. Now that you mention it I can see that it’s the EU Parliament because the furniture resembles the interior of a an Airbus A340 instead of the usual ornate woodwork that I’m accustomed to seeing in the British Parliament.
@Roy
Thanks for clarifying the “hear, hear” situation.
Pity UKIP do not have the money to put a candidate in each UK general election constituency; it might ambush some of the AGW-mad politicians we have over here.
Perhaps “scarecrow” is a reference to the Stoat King of Wikipedia…he certainly looks as though he has been through a hedge backwards.
I’d drop the Griffin vid, personally… he has a few “denialist” skeletons in his ample cupboard of the kind you don’t want to be associated with.
@ur momisugly Daniel H – You’re right about snow in Texas. The Lone Star State gets hit with “blue northers” a lot more frequently than once a century. I suspect that what Mr. Bloom ought to have said was that parts of Texas that haven’t seen snow in December or January for more than a century have this year gotten clobbered by tons of the white stuff, and that’s certainly remarkable.
Most people have no idea how bloody enormous Texas is. There’s the story of the salesman from a firm in Chicago who phoned the home office after finishing up a business meeting in El Paso.
“We’ve got some client interest in Galveston,” came the reply. “As long as you’re down there in Texas, you might stop by there on the way home.”
The salesman paused for a moment. “Well, you might prefer to send somebody directly to Galveston from Chicago. It’s not as far from Chicago to G-City as it is from El Paso to the Gulf Coast. You got any prospects in New Mexico or Arizona instead?”
@Daniel H
“Wow! That was a fantastic speech…”
I wouldn’t go that far – there was hardly time for any real points to be made – it will just be ingored as ‘weather’.. (actually, I liked that last typo so much I left it in…)
“…the Brits beat us Americans hands down when it comes to animated policy debates in the legislature…”
Though the present-day Palace of Westminster was re-built after a fire in 1834, the House of Commons layout dates back well into medieval times, when men were expected to be armed and use their weapons at the least provocation.
The whole house is designed as a confrontational chamber, with two opposing groups on each side of the House, rather than as a Greek amphitheatre, which is the norm for most legislatures. Note the two bands on the central floor – these are a sword-thrust distance apart, and members must stay behind them during a debate. They are still of practical value – Michael Hesseltine swung the Mace at his opponents from behind them in 1976.
You cannot become a British MP if you are unable to think on your feet and respond fluently in this environment. The system is strongly designed to operate with two sides in animated debate, and produces speakers such as Winston Churchill…
If Nick Griffin, head of the BNP, gave a similar speech, that is about the worst company one could ever find oneself in. It is a bit like supporting States’ Rights on purely academic consititutional grounds, and finding that one was being applauded in enthusiastic agreement by the late George Wallace, in his most redneck mood.
Support by Griffin is the kiss of death for any cause.
[After further research, agreed, I’ve removed the video, it is not appropriate here, see note in comments above -A]
K. Bray:
I did a similar thing. Being a visual learner, I created a 10,000 square spreadsheet.
Did it 3x. Colored all the squares blue (in honor of Klaus’ “The Planet is Blue”)
First spreadsheet – colored 3 of the squares red – CO2 concentration 150 years ago
2nd spreadsheet – colored 4 of the squares red – CO2 concentration today
3rd spreadsheet – colored 5 of the squares red – CO2 concentration 150 years from today if the present rate of increase of 1.1. ppm/year continues.
People ask me why I doubt the CAGW theory and I show them this and tell them this is what first got me questioning it. It doesn’t disprove the AGW theory? Just gets the B.S. antenna going. I then point out that only 4% of that final point will be from human production.
Most common argument I get is: You have to analyze CO2 on its own. After all, a few ppm of ricin can kill you!! To which I respond, “you are correct, so go research the effects of the combination of 2 of the most common elements on earth and BTW, neither of them are ricin and both are critical for life on earth”.
I point them to here, RC, (always include RC), Spencer’s, The Ref. Frame, etc. The evangelists leave pissed off. The ones who actually want to learn, go off and research and more often than not, come back with a whole new perspective.
It’s a simple tool but works well. The K.I.S. principle exemplified.
Anthony,
Nick Griffen is a right wing extremist best not mention him in the post, he might be roght here but he is very wrong on some major issues.
I’m not sure what the 100 year reference was to. The earliest snow on record in Houston was December 10th (set in 2008/1944) and this year they had snow on December 4th.
Jeez. Since the National Socialist Party (we’re no longer calling them “Democrat” here in America) lost its filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate a couple of days ago, maybe now we can get Mr. Griffin in front of a Washington committee’s proceedings – and on CSPAN! – giving that same speech to Senator Kerry, Senator Boxer, and the rest of that bunch of thugs bent on ramming the blatantly regressive “cap-and-trade” tax down the throat of every American.
With that kind of lucid rhetoric common in Parliament, how the hell is it that you Brits don’t have Labour politicians dangling by the neck from every lamppost in London?
If Republicans spoke out that way, every “D”-denominated goon in the country would be fleeing for his life.
Excellent to see such blunt talking by a politician, we desperately need more of that. Good to hear the applause at the end also. Will be interesting to see if the media give it any coverage – iirc they mostly ignored the great speech by Václav Klaus in February 2009:
[snip- thanks we won’t be discussing the BNP any further here]
And there is always the British National Party who wants out of the EU as well, and here are links to speeches by their MEPs in the European Parliament on the AGW scare. Griffin cites Richard Lindzen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwIbiZFXw24
Glaciergate even gets a mention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9WFVQIpJZM
All the major parties in the UK parliament make it their business to be united in being ‘on message’ in supporting the AGW scare, so these sort of views are unlikely ever to be heard in the national parliament.
Please you appreciate our House of Commons Daniel H. The approval shout is “Hear Hear” as in Hear him, Hear him. Yes I like it too — clapping is not allowed.
Re: John Egan (Jan 21 08:30),
You are right about Brits taking General Elections seriously and this particular Brit will seriously not be voting for any party no matter how large or mainstream that backs the present AGW Cap & Trade policies.
Our PM calls me a “flat-earther” looking at Dave & Cleggies present stance they obviously agree with him.
I wonder why, could it possibly be that they would all like the ability to put the blame for rising taxation on the general public. You can hear the plaintive cries, “It’s not our fault! It’s you! You produce CO2 so therefore you will have to pay and you will also have pay some more for the added administration that will be needed”
P.S. Decency dictates that I do not enlighten you with my true heartfelt views regarding our present PM, care should always be taken before passing comment about somebody who gives the impression of needing to consult the manual before operating Velcro.
@ur momisugly John Egan: ‘. . . national elections which Brits take seriously.’
Well, maybe about 60 per cent of them do; the rest abstain. Could well be nearer 50-50 next time (more people deciding ‘none of the above’). But the MSM certainly take them seriously.
@ur momisugly Daniel : ‘. . . Texas, a wonderful state. . .’
Hear! Hear!
I’m not seeing the video, could someone post a link at Youtube or whereever they are. I just downloaded a new version of Adobe Flashplayer and something is goobering this.
REPLY: The video is only available in upper case
OT but related- More Lunacy from Hugo – USA caused Haiti’s Earthquake – Hugo Chavez
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/21/chavez_us_weapon_test_caused_haiti_earthquake.html
Remember this “keynote speaker” got standing ovations in Copenhagen…
{ Ben D (08:28:37) :
“when are you all going to wake the f*** up” }
“when is THE REST OF THE WORLD going to wake the f*** up”
We have as much control over earthquakes as we do over climate…
nil to none.
Intelligence and common sense need to be made mandatory for leadership positions. Those human traits seem to be rare these days. G-d help us all.
David Cameron, UK Conservative Party leader, runs the risk of the same fate as Malcolm Turnbull in Australia (fingers crossed)
Anthony,
The NZ mess he may be referring to might be the study by The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. I can’t find a direct link to it, but a story about it is at ICECAP under the title “Feeling Warmer Yet?” , LinkText Here
Living here in North Central Texas I remember a lot was said about the Christmas of 2009 as being the first white Christmas for several communities in a hundred years, maybe this was what he was thinking of…