From Dr. Beny Peiser at The GWPF
Industry Warns EU Climate Laws Are Squashing Economic Recovery
Fears are growing in Brussels that climate policy could become a political football in any referendum on EU membership, following British Prime Minister David Cameron’s declaration of intent to hold an in/out poll. Climate change policy could be “one of the victims” of the disruption accompanying a UK withdrawal from Europe. —EurActiv, 24 January 2013
Taken as a whole, Europe’s share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge – and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted… The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point. –David Cameron, London 23 January 2013
Europe’s heavy industries claim to be unfairly hit by rising energy prices caused by the EU’s climate policies. A particular concern of energy-intensive industries like steel and chemicals is that EU policies on climate and energy have seen electricity suppliers passing on price increases to them. Energy prices rose 28% between 2003 and 2011. The European Steel Association, Eurofer, estimates the total cost to the steel industry of the ETS at between €11 billion to €15 billion. –Jeremy Fleming, EurActiv, 22 January 2013
Japan is likely to abandon an ambitious pledge to slash greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter, the top government spokesman said on Thursday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s business-friendly Liberal Democratic Party ousted the Democratic Party in December elections after pledging to review the emissions cut target in light of the post-Fukushima switch to fossil fuels. —AFP, 24 January 2013
Statistically there has been no change in the average annual temperature of the globe since 1997 meaning that the standstill is now 16 years. The latest five-year average of Hadcrut3 and Hadcrut4 data shows a decline for the first time. Can anyone now have any doubt that the recent warming standstill is a real event of crucial climatic importance? –David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 24 January 2013
Scientists analysing ancient ice samples say that the Greenland ice sheet withstood temperatures much higher than today’s for many thousands of years during a period of global warming more than 120,000 years ago, losing just a quarter of its mass. The Greenland ice was exposed to much greater heat for many thousands of years and lost only a quarter of its mass, so the models are evidently wrong and another IPCC doom warning has been consigned to the dustbin of history. –Lewis Page, The Register, 24 January 2013
In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month in the latest wave of sting operations revealing years of deep infiltration into the renewable-energy sector by Italy’s rapidly modernizing crime families. The still-emerging links of the mafia to the once-booming wind and solar sector here are raising fresh questions about the use of government subsidies to fuel a shift toward cleaner energies, with critics claiming that huge state incentives created excessive profits for companies and a market bubble ripe for fraud. –Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post, 23 January 2012
Reports of the extinction of millions of species on Earth have been greatly exaggerated, a team of scientists has said. In the past scientists have warned that up to five per cent of species are at risk of dying-out as a result of climate change, deforestation and development. But a new analysis by the University of New Zealand found that this figure was five times greater than reality because the number of animals living in the wild in the first place had been over estimated. This meant that conservationists assumed that rates of decline were much faster, as they were starting from a higher point. –Louise Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 25 January 2013
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So a victimizing policy is itself becoming a victim?
There’s a certain amount of delicious irony in those prospects, eh?
Other than that, though, the forecasts for the next century, and the one after that, have been pretty much spot-on. Right?
If there is a crisis in the EU, then climate-policy has undoubtedly exacerbated it.
I think the assumption behind the headline is wrong.
Given our idiot government and its green policies leaving the EU won’t have the slightest effect.
Actually I could be wrong there – without the potential restrictions by some of the other EU members out government might make it even worse
It will never appear in the Guardian or on the BBC…….what us wrong?…..your a denier! This is just a bag of lies paid for by the oil companies! Thats not snow on the ground it is crushed clouds from the weight of all the CO2….
One wonders why the IPCC continues to exist and to waste their time and our money!!!
I thought the Pres. of Poland saying the Brits ought to be sent to the naughty country corner for even considering a referendum was fairly outrageous, considering the Brits are a net contributor to the EU costs where Poland is a net taker.
The paying clients don’t get sent to the naughty corner, slim.
Don’t hold your breath folks. In Out isn’t even on the cards unless the Conservatives win in 2015.
While Europeans are finally awakening to the folly of their fraudulently-generated fear that carbon dioxide causes AGW, here in the U.S., Obama stated emphatically the other day that we must follow the same European folly.
While the Europeans may be starting to recognize the folly of their war aginst carbon, our president has just announced the U.S. must adopt the same folly. May Gaia help us!
The sky is falling! Down on the heads of the Alarmists.
I don’t rate euractive as a source of information, just as I would question the credibility of anybody who thinks they can contribute to the debate using the ‘D’ word.
“Poland’s EU commissioner in surprise climate denial move”
“Although there is a consensus among the world’s scientists that the warming of global temperatures observed in recent decades has been caused by human activity, some sceptics disagree, and are often funded by powerful backers. … One Greenpeace study found that the oil giant ExxonMobil had given $22 milliion to climate-sceptic groups since 1998.”
link: http://m.euractiv.com/details.php?aid=505869
The Conservative Party is the leader of a coalition Government who introduced a unilateral “Carbon Floor” tax in GB. This is designed to ensure the cost of CO2 in GB follows a pre-determined rising curve if the cost of EU Allowances should be lower.
The tax rate is already set for the coming year, and it becomes effective on 1 April. The Conservatives have their grubby fingerprints all over the climate cookie jar
Anybody who claims EU climate highway robbery is under threat as a result of the Conservative Party policy on the EU has not been paying attention.
This is a great post! Look at the dates and the “newness” of them. Most warmer sites are made up of old, tired rhetoric! I see hope!
RockyRoad says:
January 25, 2013 at 7:58 am
Isn’t that called schardenfroid or something?
To Bob Tisdale:
That is why they exist, to waste their time & our money, paid generously by western taxpayers to do SFA other than to come up with lunatic ideas to control the world! 🙂
This is what He said the other day at Davros:
“Britain is a major European player on all of the issues where Europe needs to act – being more competitive, fighting terrorism, combating climate change – we are right out there leading the arguments, making the arguments”, he says, “and that is the sort of political action that we need. But a centralised political union? Not for me, not for Britain”.
So no change there – in fact Cameron could make things even worse.
Don’t tell that to Crocodile Baby Bindi!! LOL… she wants you dead yo! 😛
Ambassador Bindi (Crocodile Hunter Daughter) has some things in mind for you…. Death! LOL… and Global Warming is still in full effect! Ouch… 1984 lately? 😛
Politicians are known liars or at best distorters of the truth. Agreed? Right. So why does everyone here think that Pres Obama was betraying his profession by being honest, when he said that he intends to move strongly against CO2 emissions? More likely he was saying what his speechwriter thought everyone wanted to hear.
(Pardon the cynicism but I’ve been around for longer than most of you and I’ve seen it all.)
Just a small question .Has Ed Milliband been challenged to give Britain a referendum on leaving the EU if Labour win the next election.
Fear, in the eyes and speech of politicians and their appointees, is a thing of beauty.
If we keep rumbling their scams they will do something really stupid, like tax the air.
Oh right.
Let the rats make their retreat.
I don’t have a problem with a referendum, that’s democracy. But announcing one for 5 years time based on negotiations that have not even started yet is just plain stupidity. If a referendum is needed, do it now, or all that will be achieved is encouraging international companies to avoid making decisions about investing in the UK until the result is known. It’s going to be a long five years and the Tory party have just ensured they will lose the next election. PS this apparently Ed Millibands take on the issue as well.
Methinks that Cameron is gambling that, if he offers an in-out referendum on a “new deal” with the EU then, at the next general election, people will vote for his party’s candidates so that he gets to stay in power and the people get the in-out vote. I think that this gambit will also put paid to a “Yes” result in the Scottish vote next year, unless SNP also offer an in-out EU referendum and that ain’t going to happen.
I don’t think Cameron has any chance of changing the EU rules to any useful degree, though.
I’m not going to the bookmakers any time soon, just keeping buying popcorn.
They run a commercial on local radio here in which a Marlin Perkins/Steve Irwin type claims this is the third (or whatever) Great Extinction and pops out a number that works out to 27,000 species sent to Boot Hill every year. That’s a bunch.
So if 27,000 species went extinct last year, I say, “Name one.”
The estimates of species extinctions come mainly from two sources, both computer-based.
The first is the abuse of a program for estimating species diversity as sample size areas are decreased, used to evaluate the validity of small area sampling methods. They effectively ran the program backwards and tried to draw conclusions from the meaningless results.
The other method is a doozy. They wrote a program that estimates the number of species that we have never identified that will go extinct before we ever identify them. It’s sort of like they never existed at all! For this, you just make up numbers, something really scary and publish the results.
In terms of mammals and birds, in the last 100 years 6 species have gone extinct, none from climate change, one from habitat loss, and most from over-hunting and on islands. In the mean time, we have discovered 15 species that we thought were extinct. So, we are up 9 species!
The EU has stifled competitiveness in UK business, with it’s nanny knows best laws, climate change targets (legally enforceable for member countries, with huge fines for non-compliance) have been particularly brutal on energy costs for both business and domestic uses. We have EU initiated Human Rights legislation which transcends common sense to the extent we have terrorists, murderers and perverts living on benefits with no way of deporting them. We have Working Time directives, Health and Safety laws. The list is endless of these laws which have wrecked our economic recovery.
I voted for the first time in my life in 1975 to the question: ” Do you think we should remain in the Common Market” Yes or No. I voted yes because I was led to believe that it would make our country richer due to increased trade. I did not anticipate the Common Market becoming the European Economic Community and then the European Union with powers superior to those of our elected government. Had I anticipated this I would have voted “No”.
The fundamental principle of government of our country has totally changed and we have not add the opportunity to vote on this important issue. Even worse, this has been done by stealth, lies and deceit by our governments and those of the other European countries.
Part of the taxes I pay, keep the European elite’s collective snouts in their collective trough with their collective predilection of lining their collective pockets with their fellow citizens hard earned cash for doing b****r all in return!
It is giving me the greatest of pleasure watching this whole undemocratic, left wing, nannying institution go into meltdown. The sooner its death throes end the better!