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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The New Zealand temperature data issue is covered pretty well here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d25-New-Zealand-climate-agency-accused-of-data-manipulation
Nick Griffin is probably not someone you want to be seen admiring. He vehemently denies he is a fascist, but the shoe looks like a really good fit.
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Wow our member representatives of the EU get a 90 second chance to address parliament. What a great job for €7,000 a month.
For foreigners, Yorkshiremen call a spade a spade. They are blunt, down to earth northerners who take no hostages (they invented the phrase “where there’s muck there’s brass”). There is controversy over who invented “God’s own country”, but Yorkshire is God’s own county.
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For the record, Nick Griffin is also a convicted Holocaust denier. He has said: “I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the world is flat.”
He is a truly repulsive individual, with a long record of extremism and racism. It does us no favours to have him on our side of the climate debate, and putting the clip of him on your website, Anthony, could be used to undermine a lot of the very good information that appears here.
It isn’t “here here”, it’s “hear, hear”. It basically means, “come and listen to what this guy is saying”. At least that’s the origin.
I thought both speeches were great. If I were you and your local Conservative candidate has a UKIP representative standing against him in May, you should write to the candidate with a threat to vote UKIP or at least campaign in their favour against him. UKIP scare the Tories more than Labour in their safe seats. Of course none of us want to split the Tory vote to let Labour in again (well ok, those of us who are sick of the Government don’t). The threat should be enough to concentrate minds.
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..hmmm…why am I in ‘moderation’…….didn’t think anything was offensive? Peter Risdon makes my point though (in 2 lines, I took about 20 lines…ahem)
@John Egan (above): Your very dismissive, disparaging and patronising comments give a somewhat distorted view about UKIP to our transatlantic friends. Our three main Westminster parties, Liberal Democrats, Labour & Conservative (commonly known as the Lib/Lab/Con trick) have all refused the EU referendum they promised and to make things worse, they all worship regularly at the altar of AGW.
UKIP provides the opposition and don’t let’s forget that they came second and beat the governing Labour party at the latest European election! The MSM makes every effort to ignore them – sounds familiar? Godfrey Bloom hates political correctness and has made many enemies in the Europhile arena, the AGW rant will have surely raised that profile. Good on him!!
I notice that IPCC is now taking nominations for reviewers for AR5, with the closing date for nominations being March 12, 2010.
The nomination forms are behind a password protection, with the passwords, and therefore the authority to make nominations appearing to be restricted to governments and “International and other Organizations” (See http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/ar5/Web%20version%20-%20ORG%20Nomination%20of%20Authors%20for%20the%20AR5.pdf”
Does anybody have a list of these privileged organizations?
I suspect that the list of organizations that have been requested to nominate AR5 reviewers will have many organizations like WWF and Sierra Club, but organizations like Heartland Institute and American Enterprise Institute are not on the list.
(Moderators, please move to a more appropriate thread if one exists)
also listen to
Alex Jones of Infowars / PrisonPlanet interviews Godfrey Bloom MEP of UKIP 1/5 12-28-09
Alex Jones interviews Godfrey Bloom MEP UKIP 20th Jan 2010 1/5
Robert vdL
There is at least one other sceptic British MEP, Roger Helmer of the Conservative Party. He is threatening to put up a video clip of his speech but it isn’t there yet.
http://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/
This at least just beats the record of the House of Commons when they voted through the Climate Change Act in October 2008 (the day of the first October snow for 70 years) when only three MPs voted against – even though they didn’t even know how much it was going to cost – Milipede had just increased the 60% reduction in CO2 levels up to 80%!
Note that this is NOT Conservative party policy. Cameron is even more warmist than Brown.
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I would vote for the UKIP if they contest this coming election. I fear though that we will have no voice on this issue and that the major political parties will keep on forcing this manmade global warming rubbish upon us for the next five years
David Segesta (08:29:17) :
There is something in the goings-on in the Arctic where it can be less cold and the Temperate Zone can be more cold. The Arctic has cold to spare, being that it is in shadow and can re-freeze well before Spring arrives.
This brings to mind a reverse-process, where we are used to thinking of heat energy being transferred from the tropics toward the poles. Now, we see that opposite process at work.
Chris the Brit (10:08:24) :
Hear, Hear.
This is quite revealing – the BBC of course is a standard bearer for AGW
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023145/why-the-bbc-will-always-be-wrong-on-climate-change/
Mr bloom has a blog on climate change in its early stages…
http://blog.godfreybloommep.co.uk
I should add that I don’t agree with everything said here, but I certainly appreciate the manner in which he said it.
To Mike from Canmore (09:06:31) :
Tell those people who doubt you that:
CO2 in the atmosphere is Physics, and Ricin in the body is Biology.
CO2 is blamed for a temperature increase, that is straight physics, not like a poison affecting a biological system. Apples and Oranges.
Some folks have given “greenhouse gasses” magical powers like pixie dust.
There is nothing magic about CO2.
Look at Mars’ atmosphere. 95% Carbon Dioxide. Where is the runaway greenhouse effect ? It’s not there.
The two Viking landers detected the following temperatures at 1.5 meters above the surface… 1 degree F to minus 178 degrees F. That’s frozen solid. (surface rocks however can reach 85 degrees F in the sun)
If CO2 has magical properties, I don’t see it’s magic warming powers anywhere manifested in the real world, neither on earth, nor in space.
We need to focus on real problems, and CO2 and Carbon aren’t problems, they are fraudulent scams.
“It sounds like Godfrey Bloom has been taking advice from the great Lord Monckton, in calling these fraudsters what they are. ”
Hardly surprising since Lord Monckton has been appointed as the UKIP spokesman on climate change.
I shall be voting UKIP IF Gordon Brown finally is dragged into holding an election this year (Civil Contingencies Act notwithstanding)
@Tucci
…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…
I prefer the story about the Texans who complained about Alaska being admitted to the Union, because that would mean that Texas would become the second-biggest state.
In response, Alaska offered to split itself in half, and enter the Union as two states. The Texans were going to accept this, until they realised that Texas would then become the THIRD-biggest state….
O/T-ish: It seems Monbiot has lost the plot with his latest piece. The comments make for interesting reading …
Winner of climate change denial’s premier award revealed