Story submitted by D.McNeil
I’d like to bring some points to the attention of your readers that were raised in an article in the Independent published on 11th May 2013 It would appear to indicate a major shift in the UK’s government attitude to climate change.
“The Government is facing an exodus of senior energy and climate change advisers amid growing concerns that decisive action to tackle global warming is falling victim to Treasury intransigence.”
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“A Government offshore energy industrial strategy document, due to have been published this month, is understood to have been delayed after Treasury objections. At the same time as proponents of renewable energy are leaving, Mr Cameron appears to be surrounding himself with climate change sceptics who are warning him that Britain cannot afford the cost of new renewables.”
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“Mr Cameron has also appointed the former Tory minister Peter Lilley to his advisory board. Writing in The Spectator this week, Mr Lilley warned that the “green lobby” was “in control of the Department for Energy” and suggested that the case for global warming was far from clear-cut. “Global temperatures have failed to rise for 16 years,” he wrote. “Recent measures of how much global temperature rises as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases are far lower than is built into climate models.”
I find it very surprising that there has been so little reaction to a member of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Advisory Board using the phrases “the case for global warming was far from clear-cut.” and “built into climate models.” in the UK national press.
Independent article
Spectator article
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8905731/the-only-way-is-shale/
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Could it be that reality is seeping in??
Interesting how the issue is framed as a loss of talent rather than the beginnings of a return to sanity. But, as the saying goes, there are three sides to every story.
What is remarkable is the reluctance of said nebbies ( Brit slang for nebulous personalities) to stay and fight their corner when the catastrophists hold the commanding heights of UK governance. Either they don’t like it up ’em or there is conclusive evidence available to them that the scam is blown. Alternatively, they may be scampering away to a more protected employment in the EU. For those who don’t know of him, Peter Lilley is one of the few scientifically trained lawmakers in the British Lower House and has recently been making tsumamis in the UK climate alarmist world.
Yes, there has not been much coverage of this in the UK press, although ‘The Guardian’ (a left-of-centre, pro-Green Agenda newspaper) today (11 May) printed a story condemning the appointment of Peter Lilley and alleging him to be funded and backed by ‘big oil’. Of course The Guardian never complained when previous ‘pro-Green’ Government Ministers all had substantial business interests in ‘Green’ industries and investments.
The UK Treasury’s attitude was signalled two months ago in the budget, when the ceramics industry was exempted from the climate change levy. Now they need to extend the exemption and encourage fracking, but the Liberal Democrats are still true believers, so I’m not holding my breath.
About time too. My energy bill has gone from £95 per month to £137.50 over the lifetime of this parliament & the blood suckers say they want more for windmills & an extended grid to distribute the power. Meanwhile the wholesale price of energy hasn’t changed.
We’ve switched Drax (4GW) to burning WOOD when it is sat on the the biggest coal seams in the UK. They are shutting down coal fired power stations and old nuclear ones. No one is building natural gas power stations because they won’t pay for the standby time when the wind IS blowing.
So even the regulators are predicting brown-outs in the next parliamentary term.
YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS INSANE STORY UP.
So I’ve told my local MP. If he doesn’t fix it I will vote for someone who will. Simples.
PS I could rant on for pages but we’d all get bored. Welcome to the UEA world.
It’s taken a very weak economy to finally see some cracks of light for these types. Of course there are those of us who have been saying all along that a cap on carbon is a cap on progress and the economy. For those in the government-green energy “complex,” they all knew this was an expensive Ferrari they could only afford if the bubble kept roaring upward, science-be-damned.
kicking and screaming . . .
PS The only joyous thing in this sorry story is that the Marxist idiot who implemented most of these stupid ideas has been put in jail for 8? Months on an unrelated issue. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/5/10/another-one-bites-the-dust.html
“an exodus of senior energy and climate change advisers ” Where are they going to? Zimbabwe? Liberia? Burundi?
It might be good news to UK but it could be one of the most negative global development. The exodus of the British “greenies” could be to more strategic places in the EU, UN, and other international organizations where they will have more funds and leverage over clientele that easier to manipulate and scare.
The Independent states:
“Coalition faces an exodus of energy experts as funding for renewables is held up on grounds of cost”
Ben Moxham
Jonathan Brearley
Ravi Gurumurthy
Energy experts? I wonder what makes them experts? Support for renewables perhaps?
This graph and a number of other relevant graphics have now been sent to a few MP’s following a meeting with my own last week
http://climatereason.com/Graphs/Graph11.png
We are trying to point out that soaring energy prices, declining temperatures and the possibility of energy rationing is a toxic recipe for a govt hoping to be re elected in a couple of years time.
Tonyb
Osborne, for all his many faults, is a climate sceptic and it looks as if the ‘shale-gas’ of change is blowing through government.
I love the idea that the government ‘faces an exodus…’ as if it were some sort of problem. “The Green Taliban” is being ejected. Let’s hope its followed by a further exodus of large swathes of the civil service as well. Street sweeping springs to mind…
Perhaps it should read as follows:
“The Government is facing an exodus of senior energy and climate change advisers amid growing concerns that decisive action to tackle global warming is falling victim to reality.”
Man made warming is a crock, it always was and intelligent men and women perceived the evident truth of this political scam [MMGW] long, long ago.
The dimmest of lights, are always to be found in the political sphere and here in Britain, the diminished wattage of most of our political claque is no secret. Hence, it has taken them longer to be switched on than everyone else, unfortunately due to the green agenda the current is intermittent and do not expect the pace of illumination to be anything other than glacial – it may take an ice age.
I see that the anal British are just as logic-impaired as their American environmentalist
brethren – let’s hear them explain why an oil company would give a flying f%^&ck what
type of fuel will be used to make electricity? It will never again be oil, that I can guarantee.
johnofenfield says, May 11, 2013 at 2:51 pm
8 Months? …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322854/From-porridge-snout-trough-Chris-Huhne-cashing-green-energy-industry-funded-minister-released-prison.html
Smart meters to be introduced to move to a demand supply either by switching off consumers during periods of high demand and low supply or by massively increasing charges when supplies are low.
Truly frightening.
A color map of the world’s countries should be rendered according to their government’s propensity to inact green laws. Reality would dictate that the more green the government, the more brown the country should be colored; and the more skeptical the government, the more green the country should be colored.
Eve Stevens said:
May 11, 2013 at 2:53 pm
“an exodus of senior energy and climate change advisers ” Where are they going to? Zimbabwe? Liberia? Burundi?
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Heh – climate change refugees 🙂
Humans used to get up with the sun and go down with the sun. I suggest that approach be used for the UK until they mend their ways–for the next several decades, let them have electricity while the wind blows and none when it doesn’t.
At least they’d learn the lesson of cause and effect.
Of course on this side of the pond, all we have is Winston Churchill’s famous quip:
“We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”
One wonders how long it will take us to work through them all……..
Eve Stevens says: ““an exodus of senior energy and climate change advisers ” Where are they going to? Zimbabwe? Liberia? Burundi?”
California.