Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Norway’s finance minister, who is also leader of the right wing Progress Party, stated in a press interview that she is skeptical that humans are causing climate change.
According to ABC News;
Norway’s finance minister says she doubts that global warming is man-made, seemingly contradicting the country’s official position in U.N. climate talks.
In an on-camera interview posted on the Aftenposten newspaper’s website on Tuesday, Siv Jensen answered “no” to a question about whether she was convinced that climate change was caused by humans.
Asked to clarify whether she was in doubt about man-made warming, she said “yes.”
Jensen, who leads the right-wing Progress Party, said she still backs the coalition government’s climate policies.
Norway is normally seen as a staunch supporter of green policies. An open expression of skepticism by a minister at the heart of the Norwegian government is certain to send shockwaves through the European political establishment.
Minister Siv Jensen’s sister, who is head of the Norway branch of the WWF, is reportedly unhappy about the Minister’s comments.
This is a Norwegian equivalent of a UK David Bellamy.
Could be that the Pope’s “Human Climate Catastrophe” stunt is backfiring!
Snicker snicker, Ha ha
Breaking the Jante Law is a serious offense in Norway.
I would follow her political career with trepidation.
Alexander Feht on May 1, 2015 at 10:46 am
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Alexander Feht,
I had to look up what the concept of Jante Law is. It is intellectual crap in its extremely rabid collectivist hatred of individualism. Is the idea behind the Jante Law concept really applied formally or informally these days in Scandinavia?
John
Created by a Norwegian in Denmark and daily practiced in Sweden. A good example of Nordic cooperation!
A kind of deeply rooted left wing oriented jealousy …
The Jante law was described by the danish novelist Axel Sandemose. He moved to Norway so it was actually created by a Danish living in Norway.
Axel Sandemose thought the law was universal in all small societies like a small town or island. it says something like:
– Do not think you are anything special
– Do not you know more than us
– Do not think you can teach us anything.
Etc.
/Jan
Jan Kjetil,
Yes, but … even though his father was Danish and he was born in Denmark christened as ‘Axel Nielsen‘, he saw himself more related to his mother as a Norwegian. He wrote mostly in Riksmål (version of Norvegian Bokmål). Literary he is seen as a Norwegian, which has been pointed out when I have been visiting friends in Norway, at times when they have joked about the Jante Law being mostly practiced in Sweden, hence my comment.
You are right SasjaL, he was 30 when he moved to Norway, but he wrote most of his novels after that, and he got a Norwegian citizenship.
He could probably be described as Danish – Norwegian, and one of the candidates for the Nobel price in lliterature in 1963 by the way.
Leave it to a finance minister to actually look at the numbers, especially the prediction errors.
“Norway’s finance minister says she doubts that global warming is man-made, seemingly contradicting the country’s official position in U.N. climate talks.”
Norway’s official position? How are these opinions obtained? I keep asking the dirt under my feet for its official position but I never get a reply.
S’matter, do not speak plain Gaia-ish?
Could it be:
Protestants = Climate Deniers; “It’s not our fault.”
Catholics = Climate Alarmists; “Your are dirty, DIRTY. You must be PUNISHED!”
😉 ha ha
Minister Siv Jensen’s sister, who is head of the Norway branch of the Gestapo, is reportedly unhappy about the Minister’s comments.
“Jensen, who leads the right-wing Progress Party, said she still backs the coalition government’s climate policies.”
Why?
The Progress party is the third biggest and after 40+ years in opposition they have prepared intensely for participation in this government. It is far better for us all to have closet climate sceptics in goverment instead of hardcore leftists with a religious belief in CAGW.
After all climate doomsday is down there at the bottom of the list of things concerning us from day to day.
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“Jensen, who leads the right-wing Progress Party, said she still backs the coalition government’s climate policies.”
Apparently she is on the Climate Alarmists payroll, but, still wants to get support from the ever more skeptical people… SPIT
If you don’t believe in the excuse for the policies why would you support the policies?? Because you believe all the other leftard crap and want to depopulate the earth as ordered by the head of the UNFCCC and want TOTAL CONTROL as all leftards.
In Norway too, it seems, there are fences upon which to sit.
WOW. Right wing politician denies AGW. You must be struggling for headlines.
Wow, what a stunner. I think I’m in love