via email: Statement by Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition
Today, 27th October 2010, is Climate Fools Day.
For the last 20 years politicians, jets setting bureaucrats and vested interests have been plotting how to make Climate Fools of the western world, taxing industry and consumers to fund green schemes, carbon speculators and international wealth redistribution.
The fightback by sceptical scientists and public was greatly boosted on the first Climate Fools Day when, in October 2008, British politicians passed with little dissent “The Climate Change Bill” a piece of legislation that future generations will come to accept was “the most absurd Bill that this Parliament has ever had to examine”.
Since then, sceptics all over the world have exposed the lack of evidence, the manipulation of data, the misuse of scientific process, the corruption of vested interests and the powerful influence of natural factors in climate cycles.
Despite the now discredited projections of dangerous global warming, the globe itself has continued its normal weather defining cycles such as El Nino, La Nina, the Pacific Oscillations, the powerful solar cycles and the massive ebb and flow of oceans and atmosphere. On a longer time scale there is no evidence that the globe’s long history of recurrent ice ages and violent episodes of volcanic and earthquake activity have suddenly ceased.
Unfortunately, a whole generation of Climate Fools will have to be rooted out of our parliaments before Climate Sense reigns again. We will then see the massive flood of community resources currently being wasted on windmills, solar toys, alarmist junkets, silly subsidies and climate bureaucracy will be more sensibly directed towards preparation for coping with the real natural cycles of heat and cold, floods and droughts, cyclones and earthquakes, vulcanism and ice ages. We will then regret the destruction of industry and wastage of real energy opportunities now taking place.
Climate Fools Day will be celebrated today by organised meetings of sceptics in Westminster and Brisbane.
Brisbane: King George Square 12 noon. More info contact Malcolm Roberts: 0419 642 379
PS for more information on Climate Fools Day see:
And on the activities in Westminster:
Cabal of climate sceptics to descend on UK parliament | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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Viv Forbes
Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition
Rosevale, Qld, Australia
Phone 07 5464 0533
Email: Info@carbon-sense.com
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‘The future of a wind turbine manufacturer which received millions of pounds from the Scottish government to safeguard jobs is in doubt.
The Danish company Skykon, which took over the Vestas wind turbine factory in Kintyre last year, has announced it is suspending payments to its creditors.’
‘The Scottish government agreed £9.2m worth of financial backing for Skykon which was intended to safeguard 100 jobs at the factory and create 300 more.
However so far only £2.4m has been paid out since the money was being delivered in instalments with each batch dependent on Skykon fulfilling a number of conditions.’
‘Meanwhile, Danish firm Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, said it would axe 3,000 jobs and shut some plants to adjust to weaker demand.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-11626680
Looks like the wind has gone out of their sails…
George Lawson says:
October 27, 2010 at 12:15 am
In the UK we have just had a week of unprecedented early frosts, with the night of 24th October being flagged as the coldest October day on record. Does this mean that global warming is happening far more quickly than we thought!!
George: NO. It merely means that it is worse than we thought!
Seriously, what a shame, what a waste of money. If all the wasted money had been spent on better projects, education, health, help for the elderly, clean water projects in developing countries etc, just think what a worthwhile change we could have achieved. Future generations are going to judge the squandering of all this money on an unproven ideology very harshly indeed.
Hey GW buddies!:
As the great George Carlin said:
Pack your sh**s folks….we are leaving!
Stephan says:
October 26, 2010 at 8:17 pm
OT But dramatic persistent (now around 5 years) cooling of whole South America continues
It’s good to see other peoples’ issues, it’s a kind of psychological self defense…because it means: “I don’t want to see what’s gonna happen here!”.
Interesting times indeed!. Buy more popcorn!
BTW: If you see SA temperatures you will see that minimum temperatures were lower by 2 degrees Celsius.(This is better than to see averages, the minimum is crawling stuck to the floor)
bradley13 says:
October 27, 2010 at 7:26 am
It looks like the new horse will be called “biodiversity”
Hold your horses Bradley, this could be at least a two horse race. “Asteroid-induced Global Climate Disruption” is at the starting gate.
I must admit though, I’m putting my money on “biodiversity”. The taxation potential for the asteroid thingy is not quite as clear.
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/white-house-adviser-us-must-prepare-for-asteroid/19687765
Happy Climate Fools’ Day from James Delingpole
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100060540/happy-climate-fools-day/
The majority of greenhouse gasses are water vapour. Carbon dioxide represents 2% of greenhouse gasses, and of that carbon dioxide 2% is attributed to human activity (including livestock). So let’s consider the following visualisation of 1000 (double stacked) 55 gallon drums.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2010/10/delingpole-last-460.jpg
The blue drums represent water vapour and the yellow drums represent naturally occurring Co2 (from the oceans, rotting vegetation and volcanoes – note here that a good volcano could easily wipe out several years of any anthropomorphic Co2 savings we might make). We can’t do anything about the anthropomorphic Co2 in the red drums because it is produced in developing countries like China and India who have no intention of hamstringing their economies to keep up with the latest eco-fad.
Sydney Morning Herald (27th Oct): “Remano brand pure and extra virgin olive oils … had the smallest carbon footprint, with 220 grams of carbon dioxide emitted for every millilitres of oil on the shelf. This means using 100 millilitres of the oil is roughly equivalent to driving a car for one kilometre, in terms of carbon emission.” – Ben Cubby, Environment writer.
“Dr A Burns says:
October 27, 2010 at 2:39 am”
Yes, sadly this appears to be the case. Far too many Australians were more outraged about the name of Hewitt (A lame tennis player who is past it), his wife (An equally lame acrtess who is past it) and the name of their new baby being sent via an SMS text message for $2. But this is the sort of gutter bogan trash which the Australian MSM cover. Anything serious, or anything outside the political “consensus” on “climate disruption”. Almost every day there is an AGW article. And for several weeks we’ve had “documentaries” about “climate change” etc etc, one series call “Hot Cities”.
More British are openly revolting against being ruled by eco-fascists every day:
British wind-farm revolts blamed for dramatic fall in planning approvals …
Local revolts by British residents against wind-farms are to blame for the number of planning approvals hitting record lows, an industry report has warned.
More than 230 campaign groups across the country are putting plans to generate more than a quarter of Britain’s electricity in jeopardy, it was claimed. New figures show one in three wind-farm applications were approved by councils amid heightened opposition from angry residents. Approvals in England has fallen by 50% half over the past year while the number of new wind-farms coming “on-stream”, or becoming active, has dropped by almost a third.
The report, from RenewableUK, which represents the wind-farm industry, blamed a groundswell of opposition in areas including Kent, Yorkshire and Cornwall and Scotland. The report, to be published next week, casts doubt on the government’s ability to meet its ambition of generating a fifth of Britain’s energy from renewable sources by the end of the decade. “The industry has significant concerns for both the rate and consistency of local decision-making on projects yet to come forward for determination,” the report concluded.
According to the report, it can take seven years to build an offshore wind-farm and more than two years to obtain planning permission. But changes to planning laws, due to be announced later this year, are expected to make it harder for wind-farm to be built as local councils are given more power over decision making.
“The court of public opinion plays a big role here,” said Maurice Cann, head of planning at Hambleton District Council. “I can see the situation getting worse. Some of these structures are 125m high and have a huge visual impact. It does not surprise me at all that so many applications are getting rejected.”
Michael Hird, from the Campaign against wind-farms, said his group’s campaign was working while environmentalists called for a compromise.
I went to the meeting yesterday. I felt that everyone in that room were the first people since Guy Fawkes to enter the HoP with honest intentions. Unfortunately we didn’t get to ask any questions so I ask mine here: the science is obviously not settled and yet many people at my university claim that it is. How to I bring the debate to my university?
m white says:
October 27, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Happy Climate Fools’ Day from James Delingpole…
Did anyone notice that Delingpole only showed the costs and not the benefits in that article?
Overall the Net result is a minimum net benefit of £53billion. Now why would Delingpole pretend otherwise?
kenskingdom says:
October 26, 2010 at 11:03 pm
And here in Queensland every state school has been encouraged to send out this newsletter item this week…
One million women wanted to help fight climate change————–
Hmm, seems it hasnt taken off? this is the first I have heard, and I sub to greenbits to keep up with their idiocy, woulda thought they’d be in on something so daft 🙂
ken, brilliant webpage you have! I have sent your data to my favorite aussie pollies.
Wind Farm Bribes For Councils From UK Taxpayers
“Cash incentives” for councils that sign up for new wind farms
29 October 2010
Local councils are to get extra funding if they give the go-ahead to new wind farms, under plans to stop local communities sabotaging renewable energy projects. Ministers are worried at the vast number of wind farm projects that are being turned down by councilors in the face of local opposition. The number of planning approvals for onshore wind farms is at an all time low, with only one in three applications getting to go-ahead. There are now 233 separate local campaign groups against wind farms. As a result ministers have agreed that local councils should be given incentives to help persuade them to approve more wind farms.
Under the plans councils will be allowed to keep the business rates generated by wind farms – which currently have to be passed to central government. Even a small wind farm with just five turbines pays business rates of around £37,000 a year. The money would come without pre-conditions on how it is spent.”For a small district council who, especially now, does not have large sums to spend without strings attached, this could make a significant difference to the way in which they approach these applications,” said one source familiar with the discussions. “This is money councilors will be able to spend on their own projects. The idea is that it gives them an incentive to say yes.”
Another possibility which has been investigated would require wind farm developers to make contributions to the local economy as a condition of planning approval – either as part of the proposed community infrastructure levy or the existing section 106 rules. Such conditions already apply to some other commercial developments, such as housing developments or supermarkets, although in the case of wind farms it would be more complicated to administer and would pass on the cost directly to the renewables industry.
Clllr Gary Porter, chairman of the Local Government Association’s Environment Board, said it was vital that local communities were given a stake in wind farms. “Councilors are elected to represent the interests and concerns of people in their area and will quite rightly take this into account when making decisions on whether to permit this sort of development,” he said. “People need to see how wind farms will benefit them and their local areas – whether that be financially or by supplying renewable energy to their homes and businesses. It is only when local communities can see clearly the benefits of renewable energy at both national and local level that individual proposals for renewable energy will be welcomed as a matter of course.”
A spokesman for RenewableUK, which represents the wind farm industry said they would be in favour of the business rate proposal: “You need to make the benefits of renewable energy obvious to local communities. Other countries, like Spain, who have mature renewable energy markets do this. It’s not reinventing the wheel.”
But Michael Hird, from the Campaign Against Wind farms, said it the payment amounted to “a bribe”. “This is nothing short of a bribe to get local councils to agree to wind farms. They should be spending money on good green energy and not this.”
A Department of Energy and Climate Change spokesman said: “The UK needs onshore wind in order to help deliver energy security and to combat climate change, however we recognise the concern some local authorities and communities have about hosting wind farms. We are working with communities and Local Government to ensure that communities benefit directly from the wind farms they host – for example through retaining the business rates they generate”.
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The global warming industry has always operated on this basis; resistance to their schemes is overcome by including their opponents in their schemes for massive cash payouts. Up until now, though, in Britain, it has been quite discreet, but such is the desperation of the racketeers in the face of public hostility and fraudulent science that they have now resorted to outright blatant bribery of whole rural communities (which are usually poorer than most) to get their way.
Re. WIND FARM BRIBES FOR COUNCILS FROM UK TAXPAYERS
… The more I think about this, the more I like it. It proves how scientifically, ethically, and morally bankrupt the whole global warming fraud actually is. They are now offering democratically-elected representatives a corrupt deal to cut them in on a share of the taxpayer-funded global warming loot. All the councillors have to do to get their hands on the cash is to trample on the wishes of the people who elected them in the first place, ignore the massive scientific fraud upon which the whole “man-made global warming” industry is founded, turn a blind eye to the outrageous despoilation of vast areas of the British countryside (over which they were elected to administer), remove any thoughts that none of these wind farms actually produce much electricity and, in fact, they consume electricity from coal-fired power stations, and, while we are at it, forget about the millions of birds killed every year by these “bird-shredders”.
That’s how low these “planet savers” have sunk.
Yay, the existence of earthquakes disproves global warming!