Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Jeremy Corbyn, brother of famous British skeptic Piers Corbyn, is currently the front runner to win the leadership of the Labour Party, the main political opposition in the British Parliament.
According to The Express, a popular daily British newspaper;
Following the tensions between Ed Miliband and his elder brother David that dogged the party – after they ran against each other in the last Labour leadership election – the current front-runner to replace Ed as Labour leader could yet face his own fraternal headache.
In stark contrast to his younger sibling, Piers Corbyn, 68, has made no secret of his dislike for “global warming hysteria” and has built a reputation as one of Britain’s most vocal climate change sceptics.
The Corbyn brothers disagree wildly on environmental issues, with the left-wing Islington North MP and Labour leadership front-runner a keen supporter of green issues.
Jeremy, 66, was one of more than 400 MPs who signed an parliamentary Early Day Motion on climate change, leading to the 2008 Climate Change Act and ambitious carbon reduction targets for 2050.
He has also taken a lead in campaigning on the issue, including taking part in a mass climate change lobby outside parliament in May.
Piers, who has now built a career as a long-range climate and weather forecaster, served as a councillor in the 1980s but quit the Labour Party in 2002.
As The Express indicates, this sadly doesn’t herald an immediate major change in the British political landscape regarding climate change. However, it probably doesn’t hurt to have someone close to a person who may become the next Prime Minister of Britain, who understands the issues.
Piers Corbyn is a controversial figure. His weather prediction claims have attracted strong criticism from WUWT. On the other hand, Piers is undoubtably a significant thorn in the side of the British climate establishment. For a while he was the go to guy for climate stories, back when British producers tried to show different points of view. Given that Piers’ brother Jeremy achieved such political prominence, we can probably expect to see more of Piers in the British media.
Piers also got a mention in the Climategate archive, an intriguing email which suggests that many people in the climate establishment are very hostile to nuclear power, despite nuclear being a totally obvious solution to the CO2 problem they allege we are experiencing.
Climategate email 0837094033.txt
PS Britain seems to have found it’s Pat Michaels/Fred Singer/Bob Balling/
Dick Lindzen. Our population is only 25 % of yours so we only get 1 for
every 4 you have. His name in case you should come across him is
Piers Corbyn. He is nowhere near as good as a couple of yours and he’s
an utter prat but he’s getting a lot of air time at the moment. For his
day job he teaches physics and astronomy at a University and he predicts
the weather from solar phenomena. He bets on his predictions months
ahead for what will happen in Britain. He now believes he knows all
there is to know about the global warming issue. He’s not all bad as
he doesn’t have much confidence in nuclear-power safety. Always says
that at the begining of his interviews to show he’s not all bad !
Cheers Again
Phil
Dr Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit
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There is a movement were Tory/UKIPers pay a few pounds to join Labor, so they can vote Jeremy as leader. He makes a fool of himself in parliament as opposition leader, making Labor unelectable and moving supporters to UKIP.
The odds of Jeremy Corbyn MP being Prime Minister any time in the future, are slightly less than those of the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley becoming chairman of the IPCC.
Ahahaha:
“Labour is now so passive, it might as well be led by an out-of-office email”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/27/labour-is-now-so-passive-it-might-as-well-be-led-by-an-out-of-office-email
No Prime Minister, ok?
I think the UK media love having Jeremy Corbyn in the race for Labour leader. They probably feel duty-bound to cover the election process, but the other 3 candidates are so wishy-washy that it must be difficult to find anything newsworthy in their utterances.
What a joy to have a complete nutter to follow around, and to be able to report on something which people have fun reading.
A parallel can be drawn with the story about the guy from the House of Lords who was secretly filmed with prostitutes and cocaine. Most people probably couldn’t care less, but they love reading about it, and it did a lot for sales of The Sun newspaper, which exposed it.
Now why would that comment need moderation?
See Janet Daley’s Sunday Telegraph article for a less charitable view of Piers Corbyn: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11762773/Ive-lived-under-Jeremy-Corbyns-rule-it-turned-me-into-a-Tory.html
” He’s not all bad as he doesn’t have much confidence in nuclear-power safety.”
CAGW science is an odd duck science for being a ‘de rigueur’ part of the omnibus ‘truths’ one must believe in to be a lefty politician, one ‘truth’ being that nuclear is bad. Funny, neither the left or right argues or takes a proprietary interest in E=mc^2 and other classic theories. This in itself is proof that CAGW science is far from settled and perhaps explains the 50-50 in the general population. The right has its types to be sure but it is less consistent – pro-life and creationism is more of a religious than political belief so it isn’t so defining of the right. Oh I know there are lefty scientists and intelligent laymen who are sceptical of global warming, but I’m talking about politicians and political platforms. The lefty politician recognizes the promotion of their political persuasion possible with such an idea.