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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One more cold winter – that is all it will take…. 🙂
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About 80% of electicity generation in France is Nuclear/Hydro. They export it to the UK. They never got so worried about CO2 emissions in the first place, as they scored low on the carbon footprint scale.
The French have always generated a lot of EU Legislation, but ave been very good at ignoring it when it suitd them.
Relations between the UK and France have always been love/hate, but on the issue of CO2 and AGW, the French are leading the world. Vive La France!
Michael says:
November 15, 2010 at 7:24 pm
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Before I spend $1 trillion/year on climate change, I need to know the mathematical quantified portion of it that man caused.
Why certainly! We can do that.
$1,000,000,000,000 x 390 / 1,000,000 = $390,000,000
Send the bill to Gore, Hansen, Pachauri et al… The Warmists. They’re good for the money.
Just in case Phil Jones has discontinued his medication now that his rehab is in 2nd gear, one should inform him that he is central to the failure of Copenhagen (in a snow storm) shutdown of the climate change ministry in France, the collapse of the Chicago carbon Ex, turfing of William Connolly by Wicki……. Gee he was hiding a lot.
Sorry guys, I am from France and I would never expect French people to come back to common sense first 🙂
They changed the government and Borloo is no more part of it. But he is replaced by his previous chief cabinet Natalie Kosciuszko Morizet and I think this super-ministry has grown!
Before, Borloo was minister of “ecology, energy, durable development and sea”, and now they have ADDED things to this monster!
The new title is “minister of ecology, durable development, transports and housing”. It means a new invasion of taxes and cumbersome regulation concerning every single detail in houses.
And concerning the AGW, I can tell you french people are very poorly informed about it, and sceptics in France are very rare and are despised (I only know 2 of them Courtillot and Allegre and hundreds of french scientists signed a letter asking the government to do something against them (yes!)) .
The only interesting thing is that France has no money anymore and can’t afford any expensive environment policy, but trust me Sarkozy and Kosciuszko Morizet are propelled by ambition…they can’t be leaders using french economy competitiveness, but fighting against environmental threat is a very good way for them to have their name on a very ambitious worldwide project.
>>The tribes outside of Roman influence in eastern &
>>western Europe were often called Barbarians by the
>>Romans. It is no dishonor to recognize it.
Barbarian, meaning ‘hairy’, because they did not shave and wore long hair, and only subsequently denoted ‘uncultured’. From which we derive ‘barber’, one who cuts hair. Its a bit like ‘unkempt’, from the Lower Saxony term meaning ‘to be without a comb’.
A mark of civilisation, was being able to have your hair and beard trimmed neatly, for that was and is a time-consuming thing to do.
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Ralph says:
November 16, 2010 at 9:17 am
“Barbarian, meaning ‘hairy’, because they did not shave and wore long hair[…]”
Dang, there goes my cover. I’ll invade you!
Someone failed to wake Bart Gordon up?
Engineering the Climate: Research and Strategies for International Coordination
source: http://science.house.gov/publications/caucus_detail.aspx?NewsID=2944
Chairman Bart Gordon
Committee on Science and Technology
U.S. House of Representatives
October 2010
“Climate engineering, also known as geoengineering, can be described as the deliberate large scale modification of the earth’s climate systems for the purposes of counteracting and mitigating climate change. As this subject becomes the focus of more serious consideration and scrutiny within the scientific and policy communities, it is important to acknowledge that climate engineering carries with it not only possible benefits, but also an enormous range of uncertainties, ethical and political concerns, and the potential for harmful environmental and economic side effects. I believe that reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be the first priority of any domestic or international climate initiative. Nothing should distract us from this priority, and climate engineering must not divert any of the resources dedicated to greenhouse gas reductions and clean energy development. However, we are facing an unfortunate reality. The global climate is already changing and the onset of climate change impacts may outpace the world’s political, technical, and economic capacities to prevent and adapt to them. Therefore, policymakers should begin consideration of climate engineering research now to better understand which technologies or methods, if any, represent viable stopgap strategies for managing our changing climate and which pose unacceptable risks.”
Climate change is all BS…of course we have climate change, winter, spring, summer, autumn. Carbon tax should never be allowed to happen….its just another tax on the working Aussies.
This has been a very informative and entertaining thread. Regrettably, I fear gnarf from France is correct about the French people. I encounter lots of young French people and Europeans all the time and they all seem to take CAGW as a matter of faith. In fact, their Gaia worship value system seems so strong that it is central to their decision-making on studies, career, and employment. So many of the young people I meet these days are gung-ho about ‘saving the planet’ and work for related NGOs or ‘green energy’ firms. This is partially due to their brainwashing and fervant ideology, and also the result of the shift of the employment market and industry toward all this ‘green’ nonsense focused on inefficient clean energy and dangerous schemes like biofuel. At the same time, those not caught in this net are ending up in the security-industrial complex, aiding the construction of the police state Michael noted in his comments above. Where are the real jobs? China and India, of course.
The talk about the Romans and barbarians reminds me of the scene in the Sopranos where Tony & Co. are threatening a Jew with castration. Defiant, he quips about the Jews surviving the Romans, and asks where are the Romans now. Nutcracker in hand, Tony replies, “You’re lookin’ at ’em!”
kim says:
November 15, 2010 at 10:49 pm
“What price Claude Allegre?”
Is he for sale? Despite the bruised ego?
“- Several independent indicators show an increase of warming from 1975 to 2003.
– This increase is mainly due to the increase in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere
– The increase in CO2 and, to a lesser degree, of other greenhouse gases, is unequivocally due to human activity.
– It constitutes a threat to the climate and, moreover, to oceans as a result of the acidification process it generates.” (http://www.academie-sciences.fr/publications/rapports/pdf/climat_261010.pdf)
He didn’t have to sign did he?
When the French insisted on making nukes for their “Force de Frappe”, it was militarily almost meaningless, just a sop to De Gaulle’s nationalism.
But the real nuke “Force de Frappe” turns out to be their nuclear power stations that give France many degrees of freedom of maneuver and freedom from idiot hyper-priced power schemes.
May they Frappe the renewanuts right where it hurts, over and over!