You just have to watch this, it shows weaseling out of direct questions as an art form. Key phrase: “Well what I would say is…” From Bishop Hill: Take a look at the new Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss discussing the green blob with Andrew Neil. It is scary to think that people like this have our collective future in their hands. Even scarier to consider that a Prime Minister would want them in his cabinet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb4vh0mcFK4#t=505
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When discussing environmental issues, if I hear somebody say ‘Do you want air to breathe and water to drink’ I’m fairly certain, right then and there, that I’m talking to a fanatic. Because ‘push the PANIC button’ is tactic numbers one through twelve thousand with the fanatics.
I think I’ve just found a long lost relative.
I have heard some politicians who have no idea of their brief but a five year old could pull that rubbish apart.
That secretary for the environment is a classic example of just how dumb politicians have become in the UK. Remember, all of them, except for three, voted for Ed Miliband’s Climate Change Bill that resulted in the Climate Change Act 2008, which states, ‘It is the duty of the Secretary of State to ensure that the net UK carbon account for the year 2050 is at least 80% lower than the 1990 baseline.’
That target is an impossible target to achieve. The Act is effectively an economic suicide note for the UK.
She’s a clueless prat who’s only skill is regurgitating the crap that the green blob feeds her.
This just in – professor slams government energy policy in the house of lords. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/29/Picking-Energy-Winners-Has-Gone-Dramatically-Wrong-Oxford-Prof-Shreds-Government-Energy-Policy
Deiter Helm is the professor that Vince is talking about. To listen to his presentation go to
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/10/28/dieter-helm-on-energy-policy.html
Well worth listening to. Makes a mockery of current energy policy.
my guess is that most western governments now know full well that climate scientists
have very probably overestimated the effect of CO2 on global temperature but have decided to play
along with the green alarmists with the hidden agenda, against the background of the
abject failure of the US & UK’s Middle Eastern policies, of a large reduction in dependence
on Middle East oil. Hence the inconsistencies in that interview and the emphasis on a switch to
gas and development of shale gas resources.
Having this policy as a covert agenda behind the overt support for Climate Change activists
would suit both the domestic & international politics.
To address one of her first points – “more trees” aren’t “green” in the city. They won’t let you put the leaves in with your garbage and they won’t let you burn them. It’s impossible to compost some that don’t don’t deteriorate for years (oak), and even if you are able to compost them, there’s no place to go with it when it’s done. So…one is stuck with putting them in plastic bags or having them hauled out in “city approved” bags made of paper made from….trees – and they are taken someplace where someone else burns them and pollutes the atmosphere – so trees are not “green” in the city.
Well the clear answer is that the scares have been over egged and climate change for the last 18 years flat. Her saying the people want flood protection is all very well, except green headed government have sort to hold back the tide with costly windmills due to the green lobby and EU fines at the cost of ignoring practical flood defences, which for England weren’t put down to global warming.
Wow! The perfect bureaucrat! Why does BBC invite these idiots to be on air?